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How company inaction led to two city slayings

Posted by Shannon McDonald on February 25, 2008

By Shannon McDonald | February 25, 2008 | The Temple News

“Treating people right means we believe in respect for the individual and that we owe our teammates a clean, safe work environment.”

That’s one of the values that Loomis, a security company whose employees include guards who transfer cash between banks, boasts on its Web site. What a shame that those values aren’t being upheld.

On Oct. 4, 2007, two Loomis employees were murdered while on the job in Northeast Philadelphia. William Widmaier and Joseph Alullo were gunned down as their partner, Joseph Walczak, was forced to look on from inside the armored vehicle he was driving.

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