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 A police officer stands guard at a UPS warehouse on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, in Birmingham, Ala. A UPS employee opened fire Tuesday morning inside one of the company's warehouses in Alabama, killing two... (Associated Press) 
 
 A UPS warehouse has police cars and tape surrounding it on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, in Birmingham, Ala. A UPS employee opened fire Tuesday morning inside one of the company's warehouses in Alabama, killing... (Associated Press) 
 
 Police converge on a home in the Argo area of Birmingham, Ala. in connection with the investigation into an earlier shooting at the UPS service center in the city's Inglenook community, Tuesday, Sept.... (Associated Press) 
 
 A UPS warehouse has police tape surrounding it on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, in Birmingham, Ala., after a UPS employee opened fire Tuesday morning inside one of the company's warehouses in Alabama, killing... (Associated Press) 
 
 Police converge on a home in the Argo area of Birmingham, Ala. in connection with the investigation into an earlier shooting at the UPS service center in the city's Inglenook community, Tuesday, Sept.... (Associated Press) 
 
 A UPS warehouse is surrounded by police tape after a shooting Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, in Birmingham, Ala. A UPS employee opened fire Tuesday morning inside one of the company's warehouses in Alabama,... (Associated Press) 
 
 A UPS truck driver enters a company warehouse on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, in Birmingham, Ala. A UPS employee opened fire Tuesday morning inside one of the company's warehouses in Alabama, killing two... (Associated Press) 
 
 Police converge on a home in the Argo area of Birmingham, Ala. in connection with the investigation into an earlier shooting at the UPS service center in the city's Inglenook community, Tuesday, Sept.... (Associated Press) 
 
 The two former UPS co-workers were shot dead within minutes Tuesday, and the shooter, identified by police as Kerry Joe Tesney, lay dead atop his gun from what police called a self-inflicted wound. The man was wearing a UPS uniform and opened fire either in or near some offices inside the warehouse in an industrial area just north of the Birmingham airport, Birmingham Police Chief A.C. Roper told reporters. Police have not publicly named the shooter, but law enforcement, family and church sources identified him as Tesney, a 45-year-old married father of two who lived in Argo. "He received his final papers Monday,'' said police spokesman Lt. Sean Edwards. Tesney was reportedly fired from UPS in the past month and had lost an appeal of the firing. However, it was not immediately clear whether that lawsuit may have played a role in the firing. Jefferson County court records showed a Birmingham business sued Tesney and UPS in 2010 claiming he had wrongly picked up a $4,000 radiator for shipment either intentionally or by mistake. The lawsuit went on for years before a judge ruled in favor of Tesney and the shipping company a year ago on Sept. 23, 2013. Asked if anyone would predict this from Tesney, Binney said, "Anybody but Joe. "Those who knew him are just as shocked as anybody else," Executive Pastor John Herring said. She said the children have not been notified of their father's death. Pastor Bill Wilks of NorthPark Baptist Church described the 45-year-old Tesney of the Birmingham suburb of Trussville, as having been troubled over his work and financial situation but said the shooting was unbelievable. The church released the following statement today to AL.com: "We are praying for the employees of UPS and the families of the victims of today's tragedy. "He had a servant heart." The two victims were supervisors at UPS, and police said they believe at least one was specifically targeted in the shooting. Roper said no one else was injured. The gunman had shot himself by the time officers got inside the warehouse, Roper said. "When the officers arrived in the parking lot and made entry, the incident in all respect was already over,'' he said. Residents of nearby office buildings, and some family members of UPS workers, somberly gathered outside watching the incident unfold. Authorities later confirmed there were family members at the schools when the shooting happened. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and co-workers of those who died this morning.
– The man who shot and killed two former colleagues and himself at an Alabama UPS facility had "asked for prayer" amid a "troubled" period in his life, a pastor at his church tells the AP, adding, "He's just a guy who went through his trials at work. Certainly we have prayed for him." Kerry Joe Tesney, 45, of the Birmingham area, had recently been fired from the UPS job and lost an appeal over the matter, AL.com reports. It's not clear why he was fired, but a lawsuit claims that during a pickup at an auto repair shop, he took a radiator that wasn't meant to be shipped and didn't return it. The judge found the case in favor of Tesney in 2013, the site notes. One of the men who was shot appears to have been targeted, while the other may have been a bystander, insiders say; both were supervisors. People who knew Tesney, who was married with two kids, are stunned: "He was one of the best men I have ever known," says his mother-in-law. "Nobody in a thousand years could have imagined him doing something like this," another pastor at the church tells AL.com. Another friend recalled Tesney's involvement in a program providing free ice cream for underprivileged kids: "He had a servant heart."