AT&T Wireless employee wounded in Utah shooting
SALT LAKE CITY-The Associated
Press reported AT&T Wireless Services Inc. employee Anne Sleater was shot in the head Thursday by a woman
demanding entrance to a local newsroom housed in the same building as AT&T Wireless Services’ administrative
offices.
According to Ken Woo, AT&T Wireless Services director of communications, Sleater, 30, was in extremely
critical condition on Friday.
The AP reported the shooter, De-Kieu Duy, 24, entered the lobby of local TV station
KSL armed with a handgun and demanded to speak to a reporter. She then entered the elevator and fired at employees
on several floors. Sleater was on the fourth floor in AT&T’s offices when she was shot.
Soon after, two other AT&T
employees tackled Duy and held her until police arrived, according AP and police reports.
US Unwired to use
Metro One assistance
PORTLAND, Ore.-Metro One Telecommunications Inc. announced it signed a multi-year
agreement to provide its enhanced directory assistance to US Unwired’s personal communication services subscribers
in eastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana.
NTT exec. dies
TOKYO-The Japanese press reported Hitoshi
Tajima, vice president of NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc.-or NTT DoCoMo-apparently killed himself at
his home in Tokyo’s Shibuya ward Wednesday morning.
He was found alive, bleeding from the neck, and was
brought to a local hospital, where he died, the reports state.
NTT DoCoMo issued no statement about the death at
press time.
