By Dave Dahl

SPRINGFIELD – “We kind of know the Who, What When, Where, and How. We’re missing the Why.”

Springfield Police Chief Kenny Winslow held a news conference Wednesday afternoon to update the public on last week’s workplace shooting.

“We’re trying to make sense of a senseless situation,” Winslow continued. “We’re trying to do that in an effort to provide those answers to the victims’ families and the public.”

Any or all of that information may have died with the gunman and three victims. A Wednesday afternoon news conference provided no new substantive information about Friday’s triple homicide at Bunn-O-Matic’s Stevenson Drive warehouse.

Still unclear: whether the gunman chose his victims at random or what kind of relationship he may have had with them besides being co-workers.

Police say Michael Collins, 48, Springfield, fatally shot Chris Aumiller, 25, Springfield; Marsha Strumpher, 54, Springfield; and Billy Gibbons, 61, Springfield, before driving to Morgan County and killing himself.

Winslow said Collins had two guns on him at Bunn and in Morgan County, and believes Collins shot himself in the head.

Dave Dahl can be reached at [email protected].