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Man kills four in Spain shooting rampage
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OLOT, Spain (AFP) - – A 57-year-old Spanish builder who reportedly liked dressing up as a sheriff shot and killed four people including his former boss Wednesday, police and media reports said.
Armed with either a rifle or shotgun, he shot a father and son who were his employers in the mountain town of Olot, northeastern Spain, before driving his car to a bank where he killed two staff, a man and a woman, they said.
He surrendered to police shortly after the rampage, one of the worst recorded in Spain in at least two decades.
"At about 9:00 am, Catalan police officers were alerted to the death of two people in an establishment," the Catalan police said in a statement.
"Half an hour later they received information that a man responding to the same physical description entered a banking establishment and killed two employees," they said.
Soon after, "the man suspected of being responsible for the four deaths was arrested by local police."
Police identified him only as "Pedro P.P", aged 57 and of Spanish nationality.
His motives were being investigated, a police spokesman said, although several reports pointed to a grudge related to finances and a recent dismissal from work.
Olot mayor Lluis Sacrest told Spanish public radio that "this brutal act has left the town absolutely dismayed."
"All this leads us think that we are living in a very fragile and delicate society, with imbalances that lead to these sorts of acts," he added.
The suspect, who liked hunting, often walked around the town of 35,000 inhabitants in the evening dressed as a sheriff with a fake pistol and badge, according to a witness quoted by Spanish agency Europa Press.
The news agency quoted the unnamed witness, who claimed to have known the man since he was a child, as saying the suspect was "strange" but previously not violent.
The first victims, a 62-year-old man and his 35-year-old son, were eating breakfast in a bar called La Cuina de l'Anna when the killer walked in and shot each of them once with a shotgun, several reports said.
Owners of building firm Construccions Tubert, they had recently laid off the suspect, according to radio, agency and newspaper reports.
After leaving the bar, he reportedly drove to a branch of the bank Caja de Ahorros del Mediterraneo and shot the two staff.
According to the online edition of the daily La Vanguardia, citing unidentified police sources, the man was not able to cash a check at the bank.
He also had a mortgage at the bank for an apartment that was about to be seized due to non-payment, it added.
Police had gone to the bank because the man's car was double-parked outside, El Mundo said.
A neighbour then reported the sound of gunshots, prompting the officers to get out of their car.
Police saw the killer leaving the building with a shotgun pointed to the ground. The man surrendered when police announced their presence, the paper said.
Later in the day, blue police boardings on the windows blocked the view into the bank, where detectives and forensic officers worked, and the nearby pavement was cordoned off.
Jordi Muntada, a 32-year-old livestock farmer -- one of the main activities in this isolated town -- said he went hunting at weekends with the suspect who used a .30-06 rifle.
But he said the suspected killer had never mentioned money problems with the victims. "He was normal, ordinary, a bachelor and he lived with his father," Muntada told AFP.
According to El Mundo, one witness reported having said to the man before the killings: "It's so cold." To which he reportedly replied: "I will take the chill off."
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