Authorities are trying to make sense of one horrendous scene this morning at a Brooklyn iron mill which saw 54 year old Cameron Waithe walk into a Brooklyn machine shop purportedly seeking a job before eventually shooting two men critically and then later fatally turning the gun on himself.
According to the nypost, the commotion came to erupt just after 11am this morning when Cameron Waithe walked into the ten man operation, C&A Iron Works in Gowanus, Brooklyn asking how he could land a job.
Directed by Marcos Chantes, 34 to go talk to a manager, Waithe then proceeds to talk to company manager, Joselo Gonzales who directs the man upstairs to talk to the owner only to watch in horror as Cameron Waithe walks back towards Chantex, take out a gun out of a black bag and shooting dead his colleague next to him, Oscar.
Reiterated Chantez: ‘Oscar said, ‘Hey, hey, what’s happening?’ And he just shot him,’
‘I said, ‘Oh my God,’ and I turned and the guy looked right at me. I ran and started yelling, ‘Everyone get out, get out.’’
Another worker, Dmitry Tabakin, 28 told how Cameron Waithe then took to pointing the gun at him before running.
Over the next ten minutes, Cameron Waithe would fire his gun at least eight times, hitting another welder, Armando Tapia, 66.
Reiterated Tabakin via the nydailynews: ‘The shooting took place less than five minutes after he walked in.’
Waithe then barricaded himself into an office, where he sat on the desk with a gun to his head for hours. Lt. Jack Cambria, who is in charge of negotiating with hostages, would tell he was having a ‘positive‘ conversation with Cameron Waithe, even getting him to give them his car keys and a homemade bomb-like device.
Told Cambria: ‘We engaged in dialogue and then unprovoked, he shot himself.’
Both victims would come to be rushed to Lutheran Hospital, where one is listed in critical and the other in stable condition.
Authorities would later tell that there had been no known connection between the shooter and the workers or the iron mill and would later identify the shooter as an emigrant from the Caribbean who lived in Brooklyn and Albany.
Police would later take a device Waithe had handed over to Cambria, a flashlight packed with black powder and wires to Rodman’s Neck in the Bronx to be detonated. Cops would later discover that the car had a shotgun and bullets in it. Which could hint at the degree of violence Cameron Waithe may have had planned. Of course the question authorities are asking is why that machine shop or was this the indiscriminate shooting of a man down on his luck and on the verge of a mental breakdown?
I hope this is not the Cameron Waithe that worked for that brown company, I dated him for a few years in the late nineties, then lost track
he was always a sick bipolar bastard, I no him personally not shock at all.
He was not looking for a job. He was running from a shooting he did minutes earlier in the Pathmark parking lot. He threw his bomb in a couples car and when the husband threw the bomb from car he took out his gun and shot at him (missed) after searching parking lot for husband he missed he then went to Iron works shop to hide from police cars. All the papers missed this part of the story making the whole JOB thing a farce
“Why did Cameron Waithe shoot two then himself dead at NYC iron mill”
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i will tell you why, because this black man probably was looking for a job the last couple of months and could not find one.
in ny (especially but not exclusively) if you are black and you are not an black immigrant,work for the city or have enough degrees to get you a corporate job you cannot find sustainable work in the city.
latinos look out for their own as does the asians, and black immigrants, so if this black man was american and didn’t have anyone to help with getting a job or didnt have the right immigrant connections himself, he was ass out.
now (wathie) does seem like an “immigrant” last name, but he could have found out like myself if you are black and live in ny you better be rich and white or latino or have associations, because you are not going to get work.
so he should have left the city, i know it is easy for me to say but it would have saved his life.
ish like this will only get worst because the powers that be ignore these situations. keep ignoring black males if you want.
mutts like al sharpton and president o bomb all of us, are lacking in leadership.
Just more black crime in NYC.