Racial Tension Cause Connecticut Killing Spree?

Yesterday, news broke of a crazy killing spree by a laid off worker at a Connecticut Budweiser factory. Now, shocking details about what may have caused Omar Thornton to snap have emerged. Read on for the details...

"Tuesday morning when Omar Thornton arrived at Hartford Distributors where he worked, he was escorted into a meeting with his supervisors and a union representative. Thornton sat quietly as he was shown a video of himself allegedly stealing beer from the company. Without putting up a fight or defending himself in anyway, Thornton signed a letter of resignation and walked towards the door. But before he could exit he pulled out a gun and started firing shots around the room.

In the end, Thornton killed eight people, wounded two, then turned the gun on himself in a rampage that left both his coworkers and family baffled. But now, the details have emerged that may explain this craziness.

Although he had never filed any complaints and had no prior disciplinary problems, family members paint a picture of a tormented man who felt like he was targeted by "bigots.

In separate interviews conducted with Thornton's mother, his girlfriend Kristi Hannah and her mother(who are white), authorities now suspect it was a series of racially motivated slights that caused the rampage. According to a report:

During one incident, Thornton began texting Hannah, but kept his phone on so she could eavesdrop on a conversation between at least two men -- one of them believed to be one of the company's owners -- who didn't know Thornton was listening.

Hannah said she overheard a man saying, "We're going to get rid of that dumb n------.'' She added that she could hear the men laughing."

After committing the Tuesday massacre at Hartford Distributors in Manchester, Thornton called his mother and boasted: "I killed the five racists that was there bothering me. I love you very much, I want you to take care of yourself. I want you to stop smoking."

Another time, Hannah said one of his co-workers almost ran over him with a fork lift -- although she didn't know if it was on purpose.

"There was an incident where somebody actually bumped into him with a forklift," Hannah said. "I remember actually putting bandages on him. I asked him what happened. He was like, 'This jerk hit me with a forklift," He said the guy was saying something and then hit him."