ORANGE PARK, Fla. – The only person shot when a 34-year-old man opened fire on his colleagues at an Orange Park business Monday morning was released from the hospital Tuesday as Clay County detectives work to figure out what caused the employee to return to work with a gun and start shooting.
James Cameau, who had only been working at Jacksonville Granite for a few weeks, left work and went to the hotel room where he was staying and retrieved a gun, according to the Clay County Sheriff's Office.
Cameau returned about noon to the business on Industrial Loop West where about 10 employees worked. Clay County Undersheriff Craig Aldrich said Cameau pointed the gun at several co-workers working outside the building, told them to run and then pulled the trigger.
The gun jammed twice. The third time, Cameau was able to fire off several rounds, hitting Dean Hagins Jr. as he was running away, Aldrick said. Cameau also fired at business owner Mike Rich's truck as he arrived at the scene.
Cameau then locked himself in a room where he could monitor the business's video cameras. He then killed himself.
Investigators later said there would have been more victims if the .22-caliber handgun Cameau was using hadn't jammed because he was using the wrong ammunition.
"Fortunately, he had loaded two different types of ammunition in this particular gun and that ammunition did not match that type of gun," Aldrick said. "It was there, by the grace of God, that those two individuals were not killed at that particular scene."
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Rich told News4Jax that the shooting was unexpected, scary and could have been a lot worse. He said he was headed home to hug his children.
Cameau's victim out of hospital
Hagins, the only person Cameau shot other than himself, took a bullet in the backside as he ran. Hagins was released from Orange Park Medical Center on Wednesday afternoon. His first stop was back at Jacksonville Granite to talk to his co-workers.
Asked how he was doing, Hagins said he just wanted to get home. He said once the pain medication wears off, he expects to be in a lot of pain.
"I'm just glad to be here still. It could have been worse," Hagins said.
Hagins admitted his adrenaline kicked in as he jumped a fence to get away from Cameau, and is thankful that the neighbor on the other side was home and willing to help him.
"(I told him) that I had been shot and hurt. That's all I could say," Hagins said.
Hagins' sister set up a GoFundMe account to help pay his medical bills.
Deputies are still working to find out what set off Cameau.
The victim's father, Dean Hagins Sr., said other family members who work at Jacksonville Granite described Cameau as someone who kept to himself.
Aldrich said that the employees told deputies that Cameau had seemed despondent over the last few days, but no one knew why.
"We’re less than 24 hours into it. We will certainly get to the bottom of that and find out why that occurred," Aldrick said.
Cameau had one arrest on his record, a DUI charge in Duval County in 2006.
"There are about 12 of these mass shooting throughout a given year; 60 percent of them are occurring within a business ... or an education building, so it really drives the point home. You need to have a plan ahead of time and be able to respond and act on that plan," Aldrick said. "In this particular situation, in regards to the hiding part, you need to be able to secrete yourself in a room, in a closet, lock off the entrances, turn out the lights, silence your cell phones and really stay put. Hunker down until law enforcement gets there."
Cameau left previous job after altercation with superiors
News4Jax learned Cameau worked at Woodsman Kitchen and Floors from September 2012 until last August, when he resigned.
The owner of Woodsman told News4Jax that Cameau was a good employee up until the last six months, when he became really challenging to work with.
The owner didn't want to give an interview because he "didn't want to cause any more grief," but did say that Cameau thought people were watching him and felt there was discrimination going on.
Cameau filed a complaint against Woodsman after he left.
Surveillance camera records people running for their lives
A camera at a neighboring businesses recorded the people running from Jacksonville Granite after the shooting started and Clay County deputies arriving and pulling their guns.
James Carver, owner of S&S Salvage and a former police officer, said he was at lunch with some of his employees when he ran into an officer he knew at the restaurant who told him not to go back to his business.
When he did finally return, he reviewed his surveillance video and saw people running from the building.
"We got like 20 or 30 minutes of that, and then the police arrived," Carver said. "I thought it was kind of, kind of a really dramatic incident to occur this close to our business."
Surveillance video from inside Jacksonville Granite is being kept by the Clay County Sheriff's Office for its investigation.
"I was glad it wasn't worse than it was," Carver said. "We hear about these incidents all the time, and they're terrible. We don't understand why people do it, but it happens all the time."
The Sheriff's Office said it will release the 911 calls from the incident on Wednesday morning.