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Lockheed Martin shooting Lockheed Martin shooting The Lockheed Martin shooting was an act of workplace violence that occurred on July 8, 2003, at the Lockheed Martin plant in Meridian, Mississippi. The gunman, Douglas Williams, was a 48-year-old divorced father of two. He was an assembly line worker at the plant. He shot 14 of his co-workers with a shotgun, killing six of them, before committing suicide. The incident was the deadliest workplace shooting in the United States since December 2000, when Michael McDermott killed seven co-workers at Edgewater Technology in Wakefield, Massachusetts. On the day of the shooting, Williams attended a mandatory ethics