Jennifer Sanmarco
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Jennifer Sanmarco
The authorities said identified the woman as Jennifer Sanmarco, 44, a former employee of the Santa Barbara Processing and Distribution Center, confronted employees with a 9-millimeter handgun. After working as a sorting clerk for six years, the woman went on medical disability for unspecified mental problems in June 2003 after co-workers reported her acting strangely and called sheriff's deputies. Randy DeGasperin, a United States Postal inspector, said that she wasn't considered a threat to anybody, but she was acting in a way that concerned employees. A woman, identified as Jennifer Sanmarco, 44, of Grants, N.M., who had left her Postal Service job because of psychological problems, shot and killed five former colleagues and critically wounded another at a sorting plant here Monday night before fatally shooting herself, the authorities said Tuesday. The authorities said that she confronted employees with a 9-millimeter handgun. After working as a sorting clerk for six years, the woman went on medical disability for unspecified mental problems in June 2003 after co-workers reported her acting strangely and called sheriff's deputies, postal authorities said.