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Business founder Reuven Rahamim among five dead in Minneapolis workplace shooting

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Members of the Minneapolis Police Department SWAT team stand ready a the scene of a shooting at a business on the 2300 block of Chestnut Avenue West, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012 in Minneapolis. The shooter who opened fire inside a Minneapolis sign company was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday and was among "several" people killed in the incident, the city's deputy police chief said.
John Autey/St.Paul Pioneer Press/ASSOCIATED PRESS

By AMY FORLITI, Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A family member says the owner of a sign-making business in Minneapolis was among the four who died when a gunman opened fire on Thursday.

Chad Blumen says Reuven Rahamim was shot to death in the attack at Accent Signage Systems Inc. Rahamim was Blumen's father-in-law.

In a Friday statement to The Associated Press, Blumen says other members of the family died, but he provided no details.

Police spokesman Sgt. Stephen McCarty said the gunman killed four people and injured four more, three men critically, before turning the gun on himself. Police have not released the gunman's identity or motive.

Dozens of police squad cars and SWAT officers swarmed the residential neighborhood on the city's north side after an employee called 911 around 4:30 p.m. to say shots had been fired.

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SWAT team
Members of the Minneapolis Police Department SWAT team stand ready a the scene of a shooting at a business on the 2300 block of Chestnut Avenue West, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012 in Minneapolis. The shooter who opened fire inside a Minneapolis sign company was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday and was among "several" people killed in the incident, the city's deputy police chief said.
John Autey/St.Paul Pioneer Press/ASSOCIATED PRESS