Minneapolis gunman's family grew more concerned
By PATRICK CONDONBy PATRICK CONDON, Associated Press?
?This July 2012 photo shows Andrew Engeldinger working at Accent Signage in Minneapolis. Police say the gunman who killed four people inside a Minneapolis sign company had been fired hours before the attack. Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan told a Friday, Sept. 28, 2012, news conference that the gunman in Thursday's attack was 36-year-old Engeldinger of Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Finance and Commerce, Bill Klotz) MANDATORY CREDIT
This July 2012 photo shows Andrew Engeldinger working at Accent Signage in Minneapolis. Police say the gunman who killed four people inside a Minneapolis sign company had been fired hours before the attack. Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan told a Friday, Sept. 28, 2012, news conference that the gunman in Thursday's attack was 36-year-old Engeldinger of Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Finance and Commerce, Bill Klotz) MANDATORY CREDIT
This undated photo provided by Finance & Commerce shows Reuven Rahamim, owner of Accent Signage in Minneapolis, with a machine he invented for putting Braille lettering on signage, in Minneapolis. Rahamim, 61, was shot to death at Accent Signage Systems Inc., in Bryn Mawr, a mainly residential neighborhood on the northwest side of Minneapolis, after a man burst into the sign-making business, fatally shooting Rahamim and three others in the office before turning the gun on himself, family and officials said Friday, Sept. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Finance & Commerce, Bill Klotz) MANDATORY CREDIT
Jim Dow, who said he had been a vendor who had known Reuven Rahamim, the owner of the business, for more than 20 years, drops by Accent Signage Systems Inc., to place flowers at the scene, Friday, Sept. 28, 2012, where a gunman killed four people inside the Minneapolis sign company a day earlier. (AP Photo/Star Tribune, Jim Gehrz) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUT
A Minneapolis police officer walks past a UPS truck, Friday, Sept. 28, 2012, at the scene where a gunman killed four people inside a Minneapolis sign company a day earlier. (AP Photo/Star Tribune, Jim Gehrz) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUT
The home of suspected shooter Andrew J. Engeldinger, 36, of Minneapolis, is shown Friday, Sept. 28, 2012, in Minneapolis. Engeldinger was fired just hours earlier from his job at a Minneapolis sign-making business before allegedly walking into the company's loading dock, shooting and killing the owner and three others before turning the gun on himself, police said Friday. (AP Photo/Star Tribune, Elizabeth Flores) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUT
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ? The parents of a Minneapolis man who authorities say fatally shot five people at his workplace were so concerned about his growing paranoia two years ago that they enrolled in a course for families of the mentally ill.
A spokeswoman for the family of Andrew Engeldinger said Saturday that not long after Engeldinger's parents took the 12-week class, he cut off all contact with them. She says they continued to try contacting him, but were unsuccessful.
Engeldinger was fired Thursday before the rampage, after which police say he shot and killed himself.
Former employees and associates of Accent Signage Systems say the 36-year-old Engeldinger had recently become more erratic and belligerent.
He had worked there since the late 1990s, they said, and was once viewed as sharp, intelligent and private.
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