By the time police arrived, Ludlam apparently had shot his former boss and fled the building in O'Shaughnessy's car, police said. Ludlam was captured after a 19-hour standoff with police on Nov. 8 at his father's South Carolina home and has since been returned to Norfolk to face trial. Rogers was disfigured, blinded and burned over her face and chest by the attack. She died three weeks later in a Richmond hospital. Dan Fowler, a Henrico County police crime prevention officer, said at a recent seminar in Williamsburg.
Workplace violence is a serious issue.
It is the single greatest perceived security threat, according to a recent survey of American corporations by Pinkerton's Inc., a security company. A U.S. Postal Service study conducted last year, and not limited to postal workers, found that one in 20 American workers had been assaulted on the job. It also found that one in six had experienced some measure of sexual harassment and that one-third of all workers reported being verbally abused. But unlike sexual harassment, workplace violence has resulted in people dying, and that is precisely what we must stop. Last month, he sought to spread it further, making twin presentations at the Virginia Emergency Management Conference in Williamsburg.