Santa
Clara laid off employee killed 3, including NRI CEO and another
top executive
San Francisco, Nov. 14, 2008
Mahesh Gupta
The police of Santa Clara identified gunman, Jing Hua Wu, 47,
of Mountain View, who shot CEO Sid Agrawal and Brian Pugh the
vice president of operations and one woman with a handgun just
before 4 p.m. on Friday. Jing, a high-tech an engineer, laid off
either Friday morning or Thursday from his job.
Wu already had escaped, drove off in a silver sport utility
vehicle, believed to be a rented Mercury Mountaineer and remained
at large late Friday. The police warned he should be considered
armed and "extremely dangerous.
Sid Agrawal had more than 25 years of experience in high-tech
area. He had worked for Adobe Systems, Intel and Bell Labs, Alliance
Semiconductor, Layer Five Networks and Synaptics. He graduated
as Electrical Engineering from India’s IIT Kanpur, also
went to University of California-Berkeley and Stanford University.
According to local media report, Wu has a wife and two children.
Wu, who lost job at SiPort, at 3255-7 Scott Blvd, Santa Clara,
is a fabless semiconductor company, incorporated in 2004. It specializes
in developing digital radio semiconductors. It raised at least
$20 million in venture capital. It is developing market leading
silicon solutions to receive digital multimedia broadcast for
the mobile market Consumer demand for mobile access to their emails,
favorite website, and now music and video, has been amply demonstrated
by the run away success of MP3 and streaming video. SiPort’s
target customers include leading OEMs selling MP3, cell phones
and other portable media players.
