Sawmill shooting detailed

Posted on September 17, 2021

Court documents reveal how a local West Fraser employee ordered two co-workers into a break room at gunpoint, forced them to surrender their phones and fired an AR 15-style rifle as they fled.

According to the probable cause affidavit and Perry Police Department (PPD) incident report, Alan Joseph Lawless, 37, entered the sawmill located at 1509 S. Byron Butler Parkway in Perry during the early-morning hours of Monday, Sept. 13, armed with an Anderson Manufacturing AM-15 rifle.

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