Perkins of Ideal Engineering had been shot by an employee he had discharged moments before.
I was holding my right arm up in the air as I was running,” Wesley Perkins recalls. His shirt was splashed with blood and more was on the floor. “I knew I’d been shot.”
Perkins, vice president of The Ideal Service Co., a division of Houston, Texas, mechanical contractor Ideal Engineering Inc., had just been shot by an employee he had discharged moments before.