2001 Navistar shooting

2001 Navistar shooting
Baker in an undated mugshot
Location	Melrose Park, Cook County, Illinois, U.S.
Date	February 5, 2001 c. 9:50 a.m. – 10:02 a.m. (ET)
Attack type	mass shooting
Weapons	SKS rifle
Deaths	5 (including the perpetrator)
Injured	4
Perpetrator	William Daniel Baker

On February 5, 2001, a mass shooting occurred at a Navistar engine plant in Melrose Park, Illinois, when 66-year-old William Daniel Baker fatally shot four employees and wounded four others with an SKS rifle before turning the gun on himself. He had previously worked at the facility for nearly 40 years until he was fired in 1994 for conspiring to steal machinery. He had been convicted of crimes related to the plot months before the shooting and was due to turn himself into custody the next day.^[1]