Stamford, CT – A 50-year-old Orthodox Jewish resident of Stamford, was among the nine people killed during a shooting rampage at a Manchester beer distributor Tuesday morning.
Louis Felder H”YD, a Pepper Ridge Road resident and member of the city’s Orthodox Jewish community, worked at Hartford Distributors. He was killed when a 34-year-old driver went on a killing spree before committing suicide, his rabbi and neighbors confirmed Tuesday evening.
Felder, who in 1999 founded a warehouse management system and consulting business, was the operations director at Hartford Distributors, according to Journal Inquirer newspaper reports of an expansion planned by the company.
Outside his Pepper Ridge Road home Tuesday, more than two dozen cars were parked along the sidewalk as several people gathered on his front lawn. His wife, Helen, wept as relatives and friends consoled her. Their son, Gabriel, said the family did not want to comment on the death so soon.
Rabbi Elly Krimsky, of Young Israel of Stamford, an Orthodox synagogue on Oaklawn Avenue, said he heard of the death while working in New York. He got a call from a colleague at Agudath Sholom, the city’s other Orthodox synagogue. He came straight back to Stamford when he was told Felder had been killed.
Now he is helping the family plan for Felder’s funeral.
“He was full of life and always smiling,” Krimsky said.
Neighbors described Louis Felder as down-to-earth and a reliable father of two teenage daughters and a son.
Eve Horowitz, who lived next door to Felder for the past 20 years, said words could not describe his personality.
“We’re all in shock,” she said.
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Second workplace murder-suicide involving a 50-year-old frum man. We had one in LA just a couple of weeks ago.
Killing sprees have reduced innocent victim counts when others have means to kill an attacker.
The Second Amendment is for the time between an attack and the time law enforcement can arrive.
May this poor family know no more tzaar!
hashem yeracheym.
won’t happen at my workplace.
#3 (ArmedJew) – Why, where doyou work, in a police station? Do you think it would be better if everyone packed a gun, like in the old wild, wild West?
Try Tehillim, which undoubtedly works best!
‘hamoken yenachem eschem bsoch aveilei tzion v’yerushalayim’.
terrible tragedy. i wonder if applicants may be required to answer a simple question upon being interviewed, ‘ do you own a gun’. it may not be legal . i dont know . however, if he did , personnel would at least able to watch for terror.
#5: It doesn’t matter whether or not someone owns a gun when they are hired (which is illegal to ask based on discrimination laws). When an individual is fired,all remaining employees should be alert to the possibility of that person taking retaliatory action, ranging anywhere from disruption of business operations (e.g., taking down web site) to “going Postal”!