More Details On Navy Yard Shooting

As more details about the city’s bloodiest shooting since the Lex Street Massacre come out, the story continues to become more confusing.

The story is this: Vincent Dortch entered a conference room for a meeting with three investors. He carried with him two bags with a semiautomatic Glock and an AK pistol. He apparently believed he had been defrauded by the executive board of Watson International, which he allegedly invested his wife’s retirement fund in.

At the meeting, he launched into a tirade and eventually bound four of the six the men in the conference room with him. Dortch then executed three people and went to his car with two of the survivors to ostensibly go to New York to kill a fourth Watson official. The men convinced him otherwise, and he returned to the offices to tie those two men up. Patrick Sweeney, who was also shot with the three deceased victims, was able to put a phone cord back together and call 911, leading to a shootout with police and Dortch eventually taking his own life.

There really only is one word for it: Insanity. More details — and probably more questions — to come.

Gunman: ‘Say Your Prayers’ [Daily News]
Navy Yard | Investor rage, lethal trap [Inquirer]