A 53-year-old man who seriously wounded a woman at a Riverside recycling facility where he had previously worked tried to shoot others before aiming at her and then killing himself, authorities said Wednesday.

Ruben Zavala Negrete of Ontario is suspected of perpetrating the attack shortly after 8 a.m. Tuesday in the 6100 block of Columbus Avenue, near Jurupa Avenue, according to the Riverside Police Department.

Negrete went to the business armed, opening fire “at employees near one of the buildings,” police Officer Ryan Railsback said.

A woman walking through the parking lot came into his crosshairs, and Negrete fired at her multiple times, inflicting life-threatening wounds, Railsback alleged.

“Immediately afterward, he shot and killed himself,” the police spokesman said.

The woman,

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