NASA’s Security Reviewed After Shooting
Workers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, were back on the job Monday after a disgruntled contractor shot himself and one bystander.
William Arthur Phillips, aged 60, entered Building 44 on the center’s sprawling campus on 20 April with a .38-calibre revolver and shot 62-year-old engineer David Beverly in the chest. Phillips was a long-time contractor at Jacobs Engineering who had recently received a poor job review from Beverly. Phillips also detained a second NASA employee, Francelia Crenshaw, but did not harm her. After a three-hour standoff, Phillips took his own life. Read more
