[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13074]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           WORKPLACE VIOLENCE

  (Mr. HEINRICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HEINRICH. Mr. Speaker, the people of New Mexico's First 
Congressional District are deeply saddened by the tragic shooting that 
took place at the Emcore manufacturing plant in Albuquerque on Monday 
morning.
  In a brutal act of workplace domestic violence, six community members 
were victimized, including Michele Turner and Sharon Cunningham, who 
were killed, and four others who were wounded.
  This kind of tragedy is every community's nightmare, but this tragedy 
must also recommit all of us to confronting and preventing the serious 
problem of domestic violence to insure that a tragedy like this never 
happens again.
  We are grateful for the heroic actions of the many Emcore employees, 
as well as Albuquerque's police and first responders who arrived on 
scene within minutes of the first call, and some of whom rushed into 
the active shooter situation without waiting for back up.
  We hold the victims in our hearts. We pray for all touched by this, 
and we will find the strength as a community to come together and 
overcome.

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