As state police continue to piece together the motive behind a Thursday fatal shooting at the Ellwood City Forge plant, the community is rallying together to support the family of the deceased. Timothy J. Bollman was well known at the plant where he worked in the maintenance department.
He was on the job with other plant employees around 6:30 p.m. Thursday when, for a yet-undisclosed reason, former coworker Timothy Woods, 31, reportedly walked into his workplace looking for him.
Woods then abruptly pulled out a gun and shot Bollman several times, killing him in front of his coworkers, according to state police accounts. Bollman, 36, a husband and father of two children, will be laid to rest Tuesday following the tragedy that rocked not only his workplace but the entire Ellwood City community. Woods, arrested at his North Sewickley Township home shortly after the shooting, is in the Lawrence County jail without bond and charged with homicide and related offenses.
It was the second shooting death within two weeks in the Ellwood City area — coupled with a threat at Lincoln High School on Sept. 10, the three incidents have raised more awareness and concern among the residents about safety and violence in their town. Community resident Ashley Fisher is organizing a special vigil for 6 p.
m. Wednesday at Community Plaza in Ellwood City for residents to assemble and pray there together. “With two shootings in Ellwood City and threats at the school as well, I thought the community.