Gunman in restaurant dies of self-inflicted wounds

RICHMOND, Ind. -- A former restaurant employee who returned to the eatery and fatally shot a cook died late Friday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound as he was being moved to an Indianapolis hospital.\nCapt. William Shake of the Richmond Police Department said Saturday that Shu Jeh Lee, 47, died from the gunshot wound to his head shortly after the ambulance left Richmond's Reid Memorial Hospital.\nLee, who had been a cook at the Jade Palace in downtown Richmond, entered the restaurant about 7:20 p.m. Friday and fatally shot the restaurant's current cook. He then walked into a banquet room and shot the building's owner in the shoulder.\nThe identity of the slain cook, a young Hispanic man, is being withheld pending notification of relatives, Shake said.\nBobby Sams, the building's owner, was released Saturday from Reid Memorial Hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said. His age was not immediately available.\nShake said police have interviewed about 25 people, including employees and restaurant patrons, but haven't determined what motivated the shooting. He said it isn't clear when Lee, who immigrated to the United States from Taiwan in 1989, had worked at the restaurant.\n"We're still interviewing some individuals. We're trying to track his actions during Friday to see where he may have been and what may have caused his actions," Shake said.\nAfter the double-shooting, Lee retreated to the restaurant's kitchen, where the cook's body lay, and engaged in a three-hour standoff with police.\nPolice cordoned off several blocks of downtown during the standoff and an interpreter was brought in from Earlham College to assist with the negotiations.\nBut Lee shot himself in the head about 10:30 p.m. Friday, Shake said.\nMoments later, the injured gunman emerged from the building. Lee was taken to Reid Memorial Hospital, but doctors decided to move him to Wishard Memorial Hospital in Indianapolis.\nShake said Lee died in the ambulance as it was passing through Henry County just west of Richmond en route to Indianapolis.\nPolice recovered Lee's weapon, a semiautomatic small-caliber handgun, and found that he had fired six bullets. Shake said Lee appears not to have had a license for the weapon.