Police allege sacked employee killed his former boss

Police allege sacked employee killed his former boss
Updated Sat. Dec. 13 2008 10:38 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

A man has been charged with first-degree murder after a shooting at an office Christmas party in Vancouver Friday.

Police allege Eric Allen Kirkpatrick, 61, opened fire at the TallGrass Distribution Ltd Christmas party, killing Benjamin David Banky, 40.

Banky was the CEO of TallGrass Distribution Ltd., a natural health products company.

At least a dozen employees had been celebrating when the gunman, who had been recently laid off, entered the party and began firing a gun, according to Vancouver Police spokesperson Const. Tim Fanning.

The other partygoers managed to escape unharmed.

"The shock was tremendous but all the other people in the business - and there another dozen other people who were there for a Christmas party - managed to get out safely," Fanning said.

Police locked down the neighbourhood before the suspect turned himself in around 6 p.m.

Police said Kirkpatrick was let go on Dec. 11.

This story was disturbing enough until I read this:

Mark Pinder told The Canadian Press that police ordered a group of film studio employees into the basement of their building, which was across the street from the party.

The group was just about to celebrate the completion of a project when police came knocking, he said.

"People grabbed a couple of bowls of chips and dip and we just sort of moved the party downstairs," Pinder said.

Please tell me how the party across the street could just "pick up their chips and dip" and keep the party going? How do they do that after a man was just murdered by someone that lost their job?
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