BEDFORD PARK, Ill. — A gunman walked into a Chicago-area FedEx shipping facility Thursday morning yelling for his wife, then fired several shots that sent panicked employees fleeing before he fatally shot himself, police said. Nobody else was injured. The shooter, identified as 28-year-old Benyamin Robinson of Chicago, was found …
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