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John Coligan, a 31-year-old male, was killed on March 16, 1985, during a workplace shooting at the Anchor Glass Container Corp. plant in South Connellsville, Pennsylvania. The violence erupted on what had been an ordinary Saturday morning inside the glass plant, a place where foremen and workers were going about their shifts when a recently disciplined employee returned with a gun and turned the workplace into a scene of panic and death.

The gunman was identified in contemporary and later ...
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