12/12 Fayetteville, NC Man Shoots Female Co-Worker at VA Pharmacy

Arthur Charland, 42, is charged in the killing of his supervisor, Pharmacist Linda Leviton, 38. Both worked at the pharmacy of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. According to reports, a 911 dispatcher received a call about 8:15 p.m. from a hospital operator about an irate person in the pharmacy. Charland went to the workplace with a 12-gauge shotgun wrapped as Christmas gift and took it out. loading it as he confronted Leviton whome he shot three or four times. He then went to the hospital police office to inform them about what happened and even brought them to the scene. The two had an on and off relationship which Leviton was trying to end. She had apparently called Charland earlier in the evening and he responded by coming back to work to kill her. She is survived by her two teen-age children.