Hero grabbed gun after Vancouver VA employee shot on campus

VA campus shooting victim had sought restraining order
The Columbian
Suspect allegedly had tried to get him to leave his wife, family
By Paris Achen and Emily Gillespie Published: February 5, 2014

Tuesday afternoon’s shooting in an office on the U.S. Veterans Affairs campus in Vancouver involved a male victim, who last year sought a restraining order against the woman who is the alleged shooter.

Deborah A. Lennon, suspected of shooting her former supervisor, is scheduled to appear today in court.

The former Veterans Affairs employee faces charges in Clark County Superior Court of first-degree attempted murder, stalking, cyberstalking and first-degree assault.

The victim, Allen Bricker, 45, sought a protection order against Lennon in January 2013, alleging that she was stalking him with daily emails, according to court documents obtained by The Columbian.

Lennon, 46, of Vancouver walked into Bricker’s fourth-floor office about 4 p.m. Tuesday, pulled out a handgun and shot Bricker twice in the chest, according to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office.

Veterans Affairs employee and former Marine Neil Burkhardt, 31, of Portland then wrestled the gun from Lennon, detaining her until police arrived.
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UPDATE

It was the second workplace shooting in two days in the southwest Washington city.

On Monday, a paint company driver fatally shot a company manager and then killed himself at a Vancouver business park.

Police found the manager, Ryan E. Momeny, 45, lying dead in front of the Benjamin Moore Paint distribution center. Robert R. Brown, 64, a company driver, was found inside a vehicle in the parking lot, dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Vancouver police said.