Man shoots 2 at shop before killing self

Gabriella Bass

A man seeking employment at a Brooklyn machine shop opened fire on Monday morning — wounding two workers before shooting himself in the head, police sources and witnesses told The Post.
Cameron Waithe, 54, walked into C&A Iron Works in Gowanus around 11 a.m. and asked a worker named Oscar how he could get a job there.
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“Oscar said he should go talk to the manager,” said colleague Marcos Chantes, 34.
The company’s manager, Joselo Gonzalez, told the gunman he had to talk to someone higher up.
“He came up to me to get a job. I told him to talk to the owner,” said Gonzalez, who directed Waithe upstairs.
But the man instead turned back toward the original workers he encountered.
“I see him looking nervous,” Chantes said. “He’s looking behind his back like someone is looking for him.”
Chantes watched Waithe pull a gun out of a black bag and aim it at his friend, Oscar.
“Oscar said, ‘Hey, hey, what’s happening?’ And he just shot him,” Chantes said. “I said, ‘Oh my God,’ and I turned and the guy looked right at me. I ran and started yelling, ‘Everyone get out, get out.’”
Dzmitry Tabakin, 28, said the shooter looked at him right after he shot Oscar. “He was pointing a gun to me and I just ran,” he said.
Chantes said he believes Waithe fired his gun at least eight times over 10 minutes — hitting another welder, Armando Tapia, 66.
Julio David, 28, watched his friend, collapse to the ground. “Armando is my friend,” he said, choking back tears as he clutched his co-worker’s bloody t-shirt. “He was shot right next to me. I just had to run.”
People nearby the shop heard the gunshots.
“The guys started running out and the shooter stuck his head out and was looking across the street,” said Fernando Fernandez, 49, who works at TransCare, a medical transportation company.
Fernandez watched as Oscar ran out of the building and onto 13th Street. “He wanted people to come help him. He asked us to come and then he just fell. He was bleeding from his stomach.”
Waithe then barricaded himself into an office, where he sat on the desk with a gun to his head for hours. Lt. Jack Cambria, who is in charge of negotiating with hostages, was having a “positive” conversation with him, and even got him to give them his car keys and a homemade bomb-like device.
“We engaged in dialogue and then unprovoked, he shot himself,” Cambria said.
Police deemed the suspicious device – a flashlight packed with black powder and wires — safe and brought it to Rodman’s Neck in the Bronx, where it will be detonated. Cops later discovered that the car had a shotgun and bullets in it.
Workers at C&A Iron Works didn’t realize there was an active shooter on the premises until it was too late. One employee rushed to call 911, but couldn’t remember the address. “My mind just went blank,” Hartin, who would only give his first name, said.
Both victims were rushed to Lutheran Hospital, where one is listed in critical and the other in stable condition.