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A recently fired shipyard worker is dead after fatally shooting two former coworkers on Monday.
The suspect was killed a few hours later in a shootout with Jefferson Parish deputies.
Deputies responded around 1 p.m. to the reported shooting at FMT Shipyard & Repairs on Peters Road in Harvey.
They say 31-year-old Willis Thomas Jr. shot and killed two men who had been in a labor crew with him.
Thomas was killed in a gun battle with deputies outside of his home at the St. Germaine Apartments on Manhattan Blvd.
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