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Published October 05, 2012, 09:20 AM

Hastings man, one day from retirement, was working in the same building as the deadly Minneapolis workplace shooting last week

On his second-to-last day of work, life was supposed to be simple for Hastings resident John Gillis. He had retirement cake over lunch, and his mind drifted to all the ways he was going to be spending his retirement. Those plans were all changed in an instant when a disgruntled employee in the same building as Gillis opened fire in Minneapolis, killing five people and then himself.

By: Chad Richardson, The Hastings Star-Gazette

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