Gary Martin 45-year-old is The shooter used a Smith & Wesson handgun. He was killed after police found him attempting to hide and he fired on officers and the chaos at the workplace lasted 90 minutes. Five Aurora police officers and one employee suffered non-life-threatening injuries. The gunman at the Illinois manufacturing business where five employees were killed and five police officers were wounded was being let go by the company. The first 911 calls came to Aurora police around 1:24 p.m. CT, with callers saying there was an active shooter at the Henry Pratt Company.The gunman went farther into the 29,000-square-foot warehouse, and teams of officers went to look for him. The shooter was killed by officers, the chief said. A sixth officer hurt his knee and needed to go to a hospital. Authorities were still working Friday night to identify the deceased. There were about 30 people in the building at the time of the shooting. Four patients went to hospitals in Aurora, medical officials said. The chief said two wounded police officers were taken by air to trauma centers in Chicago, about 40 miles to the east.
Aurora, with about 200,000 people, is the second-largest city in Illinois, according to the city's website. Locals refer to Aurora as "City of Lights," a nod to it being one of the first American cities to implement a fully electric street lighting system.
Aurora has a strong music and arts scene, and is even the setting of the popular buddy-film "Wayne's World." Although a suburb of Chicago, Aurora has a long tradition of manufacturing.
