Workplace Homicide

A day after the country was reeling from the shocking Boston Marathon bombings, a small Southern California company reportedly was in the grips of its own violent drama. Leonora Banuelos walked into her office at Popcornopolis with a semiautomatic pistol and took her boss hostage, authorities said. Banuelos, 21 ...

The massacre at the Sandy Hook elementary school reinvigorated the dormant debate over gun control and how best to stop the gun violence in schools. Now, new research suggests that violence in the workplace also has jumped dramatically, with workplace killings up 50 percent in the past year alone. ...

You might think your work is slowly killing you or that your job is murder, but the truth is that the incidents of homicide and non-fatal violent crimes in the workplace are on the decline. The number of these occurrences is actually down to about a quarter of what it was in the '90s. ...