300px|Front gate of Johnson Space Center. Around 1:40 p.m. CDT, NASA employees reported that two shots were fired in the NASA Building 44 in the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. A SWAT team later reported that Bill Phillips, a contract engineer with Jacobs engineering , had killed David Beverly as well as himself, leaving a female hostage physically unharmed. All NASA employees had first been warned to stay in their buildings but were later told by NASA they were free to go home if their working day was over. Mission Control locked its doors during this incident, as this is a standard procedure in such situations. No NASA Mission has been affected by this incident  according to NASA. In the first press conference, police said that communication to the gunman was not yet established, but that negotiators had already tried it two times unsuccessfully. Despite reassurances by Cranshaw and Beverly, Phillips would not believe the management were not going to fire him, according to Cranshaw. During the 3-hour standoff Philips used a dry-erase board in the room indicating he was tired of being called "stupid ", police said last Saturday. Michael Sampson, the co-manager of the space agency's Electronic Parts and Packaging Program, who had known Beverly for ten years  described him as friendly, peaceful person, with a positive attitude to his co-workers. Relatives describe Phillips as a loner who always kept to himself. He had lost his father in 2003, but had decided not to return to his hometown Tennesse . Smith, a cousin of Phillips  remarked that in the Christmas card he had received from him last year, Phillips said  feeling lonely and without family, but nothing suggesting anything so tragic.
300px|Front gate of Johnson Space Center. Around 1:40 p.m. CDT, NASA employees reported that two shots were fired in the NASA Building 44 in the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. A SWAT team later reported that Bill Phillips, a contract engineer with Jacobs Engineering , had killed David Beverly as well as himself, leaving a female hostage physically unharmed. All NASA employees had first been warned to stay in their buildings but were later told by NASA they were free to go home if their working day was over. Mission Control locked its doors during this incident, as this is a standard procedure in such situations. No NASA Mission has been affected by this incident , according to NASA. In the first press conference, police said that communication to the gunman had not yet been established, but that negotiators had already tried it two times unsuccessfully. Despite reassurances by Cranshaw and Beverly, Phillips would not believe that management was not going to fire him, according to Cranshaw. During the 3-hour standoff , Phillips used a dry-erase board in the room indicating he was tired of being called "stupid ," police said last Saturday. Michael Sampson, the co-manager of the space agency's Electronic Parts and Packaging Program, who had known Beverly for ten years , described him as friendly, peaceful person, with a positive attitude to his co-workers. Relatives describe Phillips as a loner who always kept to himself. He had lost his father in 2003, but had decided not to return to his hometown in Tennessee . Smith, a cousin of Phillips , remarked that in the Christmas card he had received from him last year, Phillips said that he was feeling lonely and without family, but nothing in the card suggested anything so tragic.
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