'Boston Globe': IRS Planned to Garnish 'Significant Amount' of Massachusetts Gunman's Wages
LINDA STOUFFER, CNN ANCHOR: We want to return now to one of our top stories today: the office shooting deaths of seven people in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Their co-worker, Michael McDermott, is scheduled to be arraigned this morning. "Boston Globe" reporter Brian MacQuarrie is covering the story for his paper. Brian, thanks so much for being with us on what I know is a very busy day for you. Thank you.</s>BRIAN MACQUARRIE, "BOSTON GLOBE": Thank you, too.</s>STOUFFER: Well, first of all, I'm hoping that we could get into the how and the why. What are you learning about Michael McDermott's morning yesterday? Do police believe that he went in there with some kind of a plan to get certain people?</s>MACQUARRIE: Yes, we heard that he did report to work -- or -- about 8:30. He worked then for about two hours there. He then went to the reception part of the building. He apparently shot people there. He then walked about 50 feet back to the accounting part of the building, and he slowly and methodically killed five more there.</s>STOUFFER: Well, what about this theory about back taxes that he owed to the IRS? What have you learned about that? Perhaps, how much he owed, how much might have been taken out of his paycheck in the future?</s>MACQUARRIE: Right, well, we heard from a law enforcement source last night that it would be a significant amount. This source told us that he had expressed some concern last week that he might not be able to live on what was left. We also learned that he had an argument last week about this. So it was something that was on his mind. They planned to begin to take this out at the start of the new year.</s>STOUFFER: And, Brian, I know you and the other reporters at your paper have been able to talk to some of the employees who were actually in the building yesterday. What are they telling you about those first moments, what they heard, what they saw?</s>MACQUARRIE: The best that we heard was that there were about five employees in a conference room behind the receptionist. That's where the killing began. The bullets started to fly, broke the glass there in that room. They dove to the floor. And from what we can piece together at this point, people started to race out from all parts of the building. Most of this occurred on the first floor. There were some people above him on the second floor who then hid up there. And we understand there were people up there for quite some time before they were able to get out. But from what we understand at this point, no one really knew what was going on. They just raced outside and ran up and down the street.</s>STOUFFER: I can't even imagine. It must have been terrifying in there. Brian MacQuarrie, thank you so much for your time today and filling us in on some of the details as we all try to understand what happened there yesterday. Thank you.</s>MACQUARRIE: Thank you.