The Nation - News from Sept. 17, 1989

Funerals were held for the first three of seven victims of Joseph T. Wesbecker, a deranged former co-worker who entered the Standard Gravure Corp. building in Louisville, Ky., last week and sprayed bullets from an arsenal of semiautomatic weapons. Funerals for the other four victims were scheduled for Monday. Meanwhile, 11 of the 15 people injured by Wesbecker during the rampage remained hospitalized, two in critical condition. Wesbecker, who turned a pistol on himself to end his shooting spree with assault weapons, did not have a formal funeral. Bill Longest, an official at Owen Funeral Home in Louisville said the body had been embalmed and taken away. Longest said Wesbecker’s family had asked that no other information be divulged.