man kills self at automall

Do you have any information about a man working at the garber automall killing himself at work today

yes he was my brother-in-law do you know anything? His wife and children are trying to figure out what and why. please help us if you have information

my mom and i worked with him. everyone called him, "murdoch." he was just very angry at the company, let down by the company...he felt betrayed and felt helpless and in fear since garber changed everyones pay plans. i give my deepest sympathy and regards to family and friends that knew him. he was an awesome, funny, great guy; and its a tragedy that he's gone.

serious situation,yes this is sad and somewhat cowardly as well, however for an individual to perform a premeditated act like this where it was performed should open up some questions as to why???? ASK HONEST QUESTIONS DO NOT BLOW THIS OFF AS A GUY WHO LOST IT ALL ON HIS OWN...HE HAD HELP LOSING IT!!!!!!!

friend wrote:

my mom and i worked with him. everyone called him, "murdoch." he was just very angry at the company, let down by the company...he felt betrayed and felt helpless and in fear since garber changed everyones pay plans. i give my deepest sympathy and regards to family and friends that knew him. he was an awesome, funny, great guy; and its a tragedy that he's gone.

LLF wrote:

serious situation,yes this is sad and somewhat cowardly as well, however for an individual to perform a premeditated act like this where it was performed should open up some questions as to why???? ASK HONEST QUESTIONS DO NOT BLOW THIS OFF AS A GUY WHO LOST IT ALL ON HIS OWN...HE HAD HELP LOSING IT!!!!!!!<quoted text>

you are right, there was and always is other factors when it comes to suicide, ASK the questions

sister in law wrote:

yes he was my brother-in-law do you know anything? His wife and children are trying to figure out what and why. please help us if you have information

This IS his wife
You are not his sister in law. My family does not live in Dunellon, and we know why. It all had to do with the way that he was treated by the shop itself.

My husband was a technician of 26 1/2 years, the best man that I have ever known. But Garber decided to treat him like they do most other technicians and employees that work there. They worked him to death, and then they showed their appreciation for all that he did for them by treating him like someone that they could just throw away.

they made him promises that they never kept, we moved here from California with the promise of him not having to turn a wrench, and for awhile that seemed to be what was going to happen. He worked his fingers to the bone, and how was he rewarded? They systematically cut his pay not once but twice. He was a great employee never in any trouble, always trained the new technicians. He didn't know how to take care of his family with what Garber was doing, he was worn out by what Garber did to him, he was tired, getting older and didn't feel like there was an answer.

This was Garbers fault!!!!!

LLF wrote:

serious situation,yes this is sad and somewhat cowardly as well, however for an individual to perform a premeditated act like this where it was performed should open up some questions as to why???? ASK HONEST QUESTIONS DO NOT BLOW THIS OFF AS A GUY WHO LOST IT ALL ON HIS OWN...HE HAD HELP LOSING IT!!!!!!!<quoted text>

Again, this is Karen Kepner, Don (Murdocks) wife of 13 years. Cowardly, you don't know ANYTHING about my husband. How dare you say that he was cowardly.

My husband gave everything of himself to try to help everyone around him. Not only his family, and friends, but anyone whos life he touched.

His act was brought on by desperation. You work your entire life for what you have, I work to, you have children, you are 45 years old and in a business for almost 27 years, to be treated like dirt. Eveyone around him was also being treated badly.

What he did, he didn't do for himself. He did it to take care of his children, his wife, and to hopefully help those that he left behind in any way that he could.

If there was a problem at home, which there wasn't, he would have done this at home. He did this at the place that he wanted to get back at GARBER AUOTMALL.

If there is anything to be learned from this, is that you have to, EVERYONE out there start treating people with respect, dignity and compassion and stop treating people like they don't matter.

Every action that you take efeects someone elses life. Everytime you treat someone badly, it effects them.

Years ago the world was not like it is now. People truely cared about each other. Now it is all about things, and getting ahead, no matter who it hurts.

If you think my husband was cowardly, I invite you to meet me and my children. I will show you videos of our life toether, talk to the people that actually knew him, and then you tell me if you still think he was a coward.

Karen Kepner

For all of you posting your questions about my husband on this forum. I will answer all of your questions right here.

My husband, father of two, 45 years old, a wonderful, giving, fantastic, intelligent, loving man. He started working on cars at the age of 15, he went to trade school and began earning a living working on cars at 17 years of age.
Most of you just take your cars in to get them repaired somewhere not know what those technicians have to learn, how hard the labor is and what those people put their bodies through to repair those cars for you.
I know that most of you are thinking that this is the career that he chose. He did, because he was great at it. He was the best technician that I knew, and everyone around him would tell you the same thing, I am not saying that because he was my husband. He loved cars and everything about them.
But after awhile, you think like in most jobs, you would get promoted so that you don't have to do the physical part of it anymore. You can pass on the knowledge that it takes years to gain to those just entering the business. After all, you earned it right?
But because my husband was so good at what he did, those around him decided to keep him where he was instead of advancing him to where he should be. Why, because nobody there could make them the kind of money repairing cars that my husband could. He was fast at working on them, he could fix things that nobody else could. They didn't want him to stop doing what he was doing because of that.
And then came Dave Kendricks, the new supervisor. He spent money where he didn't need to on equipment that didn't help the technicians do their job, but made it easier for him to work. They told the technicians that they had to personally purchase as $5,000 computer to be able to do their jobs. The computers that were brought in took longer for the technicians to be able to get cars and fix them, but it made DAve Kendricks job easier so he didn't care.
It cost alot of money, the bottom dollar was going to be effected for the department, so instead of not buying this system, and looking out for the technicians, they begain cutting pays. I bet Daves pay didn't get cut.
My husband worked for nothing more than a home, and some security for later on his entire life. He had a third degree shoulder seperation that should have been operated on a few years ago.
He blew out both of his wrist, his knee and permanently injured his back doing car work. Garber knew all of this when they hired him.
He went to them and told them by cutting him back to doing this kind of physical labor, it was killing him. But GARBER, and Dave didn't care.
My husband was supeonaed to give a deposition for an accident that occured 3 years ago where a truck fell on one of the employees, permanently damaging his back. It fell off of a rack that Don told them was unsafe, but they didn't listen to him. He knew that the racks couldn't hold a truck that size. Is it a coincidence that the deposition was to be Monday the 28th. He mentioned in a mass e-mail that they would never let him do the deposition, and that the accident was their fault for not listening to him.
I will not have my ONE AND ONLY perfect man to spend the rest of my life with. The person that I wanted to grow old with, spoil my grandchildren with, go on that honeymoon with that we never took 13 years ago.
GARBER took him away from me. They didn't have to do what they did to him, they could have been honest with him from the beginning, and we wouldn't even have come here. Things didn't have to turn out this way.
Yes, ask why, anyone in a position to do anything about the way that Garber Automall is managed has a responsibility to look into this and see that what I am saying is true. You have the obligation to fix this!
And if you are a technician looking for a new job. Don't by any means go to Garber, it could kill you, literally

Karen Kepner wrote:

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Again, this is Karen Kepner, Don (Murdocks) wife of 13 years. Cowardly, you don't know ANYTHING about my husband. How dare you say that he was cowardly.
My husband gave everything of himself to try to help everyone around him. Not only his family, and friends, but anyone whos life he touched.
His act was brought on by desperation. You work your entire life for what you have, I work to, you have children, you are 45 years old and in a business for almost 27 years, to be treated like dirt. Eveyone around him was also being treated badly.
What he did, he didn't do for himself. He did it to take care of his children, his wife, and to hopefully help those that he left behind in any way that he could.
If there was a problem at home, which there wasn't, he would have done this at home. He did this at the place that he wanted to get back at GARBER AUOTMALL.
If there is anything to be learned from this, is that you have to, EVERYONE out there start treating people with respect, dignity and compassion and stop treating people like they don't matter.
Every action that you take efeects someone elses life. Everytime you treat someone badly, it effects them.
Years ago the world was not like it is now. People truely cared about each other. Now it is all about things, and getting ahead, no matter who it hurts.
If you think my husband was cowardly, I invite you to meet me and my children. I will show you videos of our life toether, talk to the people that actually knew him, and then you tell me if you still think he was a coward.
Karen Kepner

Ma'am,

Again, I am so sorry for your loss. I am not trying to re-open the subject, but I am truly sorry. The people on here making rude and nasty comments...forget the words, forget them. Obviously, they didn't know him. Murdock was such a generous and kind person; and he always had a smile on his face. At the time that I worked there, I didn't know all the bad or what exactly he was facing, but he was always smiling on my bad days :) My mom would say the exact same thing. I had a hard time dealing with the politics and craziness of that place, but was nothing compared to what I would later learn of what was eating him. My mother has been there since I was a little girl, straight from the beginning...She's is not of any management, but works her tail off everyday and gives everything 110%. I've seen the type of bull that they can deal someone and I realize why everyone can get so fed up and so angry with that place.

Just pay no attention to people that say unkind things and that do not know him. You don't know me either, but my apologies are given to you and you and everyone else close to you knows of what an amazing human being that he was.

Much Love.

normal sane people don't just kill themselves because they are fed up with their jobs, they look for new ones! If people just went around killing themselves because they had their pay cut or didn't like their boss we would have a lot of dead people out there. I know you are probably grieving and looking for someone to blame other than your beloved husband but you need to really ask some tough questions and be realistic! I am not trying to be mean or cruel and I am sorry for your families loss. I wish your husband would of thought of your family before he did what he did. Nothing is that bad to leave a loving devoted family with so much pain!

I worked for Garber about 2-1/2 to 3 years ago as a heavy line tech. Which shop did he work in as they have different ones for the big 3. Was it the Dodge, Chevy or the Ford Shop??

chevy

friend wrote:

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Ma'am,
Again, I am so sorry for your loss. I am not trying to re-open the subject, but I am truly sorry. The people on here making rude and nasty comments...forget the words, forget them. Obviously, they didn't know him. Murdock was such a generous and kind person; and he always had a smile on his face. At the time that I worked there, I didn't know all the bad or what exactly he was facing, but he was always smiling on my bad days :) My mom would say the exact same thing. I had a hard time dealing with the politics and craziness of that place, but was nothing compared to what I would later learn of what was eating him. My mother has been there since I was a little girl, straight from the beginning...She's is not of any management, but works her tail off everyday and gives everything 110%. I've seen the type of bull that they can deal someone and I realize why everyone can get so fed up and so angry with that place.
Just pay no attention to people that say unkind things and that do not know him. You don't know me either, but my apologies are given to you and you and everyone else close to you knows of what an amazing human being that he was.
Much Love.

This is very tragic but it is only normal to question the mental stability of someone who brings a weapon to his workplace to do such a horriffic premeditated act with innocent people around ? Can you honestly say you would not worry about this type of individual working with your mother or family member ?

In reading the response from the wife of the deceased, it is evident that there is a lot of hatred for Garber and Mr. Kendricks. It is obvious that Mr. Kendricks was just doing his job and Garber is functioning as any company would under the circumstances. Her husbands "revenge" only showed how mentally unstable he was. If one is not happy with one's job, seek another. Taking your life is a cowardly way out. What did he resolve by committing suicide? All his problems are now passed on to his family. In time, this event will just be forgotten, buried and become old news. Mr. Kendricks will continue to do his job as required by Garber and Garber will continue to function as a business. My condolences to the family. The wife has a right to be bitter at this time, but in time should realize that her husband needed help. Suicide is not an answer to any problem.

My deepest sympathy goes out to this family during this difficult time.No one denies this was a very tragic event but in turn you have to question his mental stability.What type of person ends his life in such a horriffic way to make a so called "statement." There are many innocent people that were effected by this.Has anyone thought of the kids playing in the play area while moms van was being fixed? What if your son witnessed this act? Wouldn't you question his mental stability? It is the same type of statement Bin Ladden made after he had the suicide bomers crash the world trade center. Many innocent people were effected and for what ? To make a statement? I am sure if you find Bin laddens wife she would say her husband was mentally stable too. That is why this is so hard to grasp - there had to have been other issues. I am sure it is easier to point a finger or make slanderous remarks on misguided facts to get the monkey off someones back. But there were options-options to switch jobs,careers or not end his life.My family has endured their fair share of financial setbacks the past 2 yrs & would hate if my husband felt that by having a new pay scale the only way out to make things better for my family was to take his life.Why didn't he just go to another dealership if this was the only so called reason?I am sure no one forced him to stay. The economy is struggling right now and many laid off people would rather have an adjusted pay plan then be laid off.It is an adjustment of lifestyles-everyone has car payments,mortgages,and bills - if someone can't make adjustments on a possible loss of pay - maybe they are living beyond their means.If that is the case the job or employer is just the scape goat.Can you imagine all the people that would end their lives if they suffered a pay cut this year? The obituaries would be filled with realtors,mortage/stock brokers,and builders!I hope if my husband was suicidal or miserable because of his job that he would feel secure enough to know I don't care if he flips burgers or dresses in the mouse suit at Chuck E Cheese!Obviously,he felt this was the only way out to make things better for his family which is very sad but shame on someone NOT Garber.Hopefully, people are intelligent enough to see the facts and put aside all the misguided slanderous remarks people make out of anger or grief.

Mental illness is what causes people to commit suicide - not mean bosses. Please see that this poor man was suffering the impacts of a severe emotional condition. The fact that co-workers remember him as a congenial and upbeat fellow suggests not that he was suddenly pushed over the edge but instead that he was not in touch with his own mental state to begin with.

Honor his memory by finding the peace that he was unable to claim for himself.

I pray for those he left behind, if any are reading this - know that your loss is felt by those who care about and support you. May you find strength and understanding of this terrible tragedy

Has anyone thought there may be another side to the story? Yes, we all love to believe our spouses tell us everything from every meeting,review,or general conversation but that is impossible.Maybe just maybe no one knew his unhappiness except his wife.This is a tragic event and no one discredits the grief the family if going through right now.People can point the finger at an employer, innocent individuals, and other things but NO ONE IS TO BLAME.People that do vendicitve premeditated acts like this have certain characteristics in common:aggression,manic behaviors,mood swings,violent tempers,egotistical,and depression. Not saying he had these characteristics only the family,friends and co-workers can answer that question.But no one in a sound mental state feels a job or paycheck is worth ending their life.The wife was right... the world was a different place before-people did not have such a sense of ENTITLEMENT or bring weapons to work if they felt they were not making the money they wanted.It is sad he felt so trapped not to be able to switch professions or possible loss of pay to end his life.Feeling so backed into a corner and the only way to provide a better life for your family is to end your life to collect a life insurance policy is what can kill someone not an employer.In time these blogs will end and let this family heal -heal with whatever story thay want to believe was the reason to make him do such a tragic act of violence that effected many other innocent individuals.

[My heart goes out to you and your family. I can't even imagine what you must be going through. I can only imangine that you must be going through so many different emotions, hurt anger, sadness and probably will for quiet some time.

Blaming David Kendrick breaks my heart and I then get filled with anger. I then have to sit back and remember how you are feeling at this sad moment in your life.

You do not know David Kendrick as a man, just as others on this forum do not know the kind of loving and caring man your husband was.

David Kendrick's character is honest, respectful, and compassionate and he cares for his fellow men. David is a loving father, husband and brother. He has everyone's best interest at heart and understands fully that family is first and how hard it is to financially support family. He too, has worked very hard to be where he is at today in his career and had to start from the bottom and work his way up.

Being in management and having to inform someone that they will be laid off, fired or their pay is going to decrease, is one of the hardest things a manager has to do and it does make you feel like crap when you know that what you have to do is about to impact someone’s life. I know from experience. No manager every wants to be the bearer of this news. it sucks and it is hard. But sometimes these things have to take place so that you can sustain the business and keep people employed. Companies have to make profit or they don't succeed. If your husband had David's position, in which your comments lead me to believe he wanted this position, he to would of had to make hard and unpopular decisions that affect employees. Unfortunately you cannot make everyone happy.

I am so sorry for what you are having to go through. It is wrong and you have every right to be angry, but David and Garber are not the blame. It's unfortunate that your husband chose to take his own life, thinking this was the only way out to take care of his family, when what his family needed is him. May you find strength in God throughout this difficult time. Blessings

david kendrick is not a good man. He has made problems at every place he has worked at. He goes afterpeople all the time.

tired wrote:

david kendrick is not a good man. He has made problems at every place he has worked at. He goes afterpeople all the time.

You make your own problems. It's called accountabilty.