A student at Northern Illinois University was on his first day as a human resources intern at the Henry Pratt Co. plant in Aurora, Ill., Friday where he was one of five victims gunned down by plant worker Gary Martin.
Aurora police Chief Kristen Ziman confirmed at a news conference Saturday that Trevor Wehner was one of the victims.
Wehner was from Sheridan, Ill.
In an email to students, NIU's president, Lisa Freeman, said Wehner was expected to graduate in May with a degree in human resource management.
Wehner was one of two victims with NIU connections who were killed Friday. Clayton Parks, who police said was the human resources manager at Henry Pratt, was the other. Parks was a 2014 graduate of the College of Business, Freeman said.
Ziman said three of the five victims of the shootings were shot to death at a meeting called to fire Martin, but they did not say whether Wehner was present at the meeting. All five victims were in the same area of the complex and died within the first five minutes of the attack, Ziman said.
Wehner graduated from Serena High School in 2015. His hometown, Sheridan, has about 3,000 people and is 30 miles southwest of Henry Pratt. He was a dean's list student at NIU's College of Business, according to the school's website.
