Jose Galdino Lopez Izquierdo, a 25-year-old Hispanic man from Asheboro, North Carolina, was one of three people killed in a workplace shooting at McBride Lumber Company in Star on January 13, 2012. The shooting began about 6 a.m. when 50-year-old Ronald Dean Davis of Ether entered the lumber yard and opened fire with a 12-gauge shotgun. Also killed were Daniel Thomas Davis, 32, of Star, and Eusebio Diaz Gomez, 34, of Asheboro; a fourth man, Florentino Tellez Aparicio, 21, of Candor, was wounded and hospitalized in stable condition.

Davis was found about a mile away at his cabin with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head and was airlifted to UNC Chapel Hill Hospital, where he died the next day. Investigators recovered a six-page handwritten note in which Davis expressed paranoia and wrote that he believed other employees, particularly Hispanic workers, were making fun of him. Davis had worked at the company about a decade and colleagues said he often felt mocked, especially when coworkers socialized in Spanish. The community was left shocked and mourning.

If anyone knew Jose, his work life, or saw anything that morning at the lumber yard, please share what is known.