The Nation - News from Feb. 17, 1989

A disgruntled bank employee who opened fire on his co-workers, killing three of them and then himself, had an extensive history of psychiatric treatment, officials said. Emanuel Tsegaye, 33, a bill collector who worked for Chevy Chase Federal Savings Bank’s credit card center in Bethesda, Md., had been quietly feuding with supervisors for weeks, co-workers said. Officials of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said that Tsegaye had been treated at a maximum-security psychiatric hospital for more than two years after threatening a police officer. He was declared criminally insane. Officials speculated that Tsegaye’s mental problems began in his home country of Ethiopia, where he was hospitalized for depression in the 1970s.