Four killed as gunman goes on rampage

Police outside the bar/Europa Sur

OLOT/Girona (Agencies) A man armed with a shotgun killed four people this morning, two in a bar in La Canya, near Olot (Girona) and two in a bank branch in Olot itself.  He gave himself up to local police immediately after the second killings. According to the police, the incident began shortly after 8am when the suspect, 57-year-old Pere P.P., went into a bar in the centre of La Canya and shot dead two men - a father and son, who owned the construction company where the suspect worked. Police say that the double homicide was motivated by money as the construction company owed the man a large amount of back pay. After the shoot-out in the bar, the suspect then went by car to the Olot branch of the Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo (CAM) and barely ten minutes after the first murders, killed the bank manager and a young woman employed in the branch. The police had already reacted to the emergency calls received after the first shootings, but were unable to stop the gunman before he carried out his second two killings.