Barr-Nunn Transportation, the Iowa-based trucking company which employed Wisconsin gunman Wade Michael Page, is getting PR support from a local agency as media pore over Page’s background.
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A day after Page opened fire in a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisc., killing six people, the company released, via West Des Moines-based ad/PR agency Strategic America, a summary of the gunman’s employment at Barr-Nunn.
Page, who killed himself after being wounded by police at the scene, was employed from 2006-2010 as a solo driver for the company before being terminated for violating an impaired driving policy after a North Carolina arrest in his personal vehicle, said the statement, which is described as “our official communication relate to media inquiries regarding Wade Michael Page.”
Lori McManus Solo, VP of PR and principal at SA and a former board member of the Worldcom PR Group of firms, is handling media inquiries for Barr-Nunn. She told O'Dwyer's the firm was newly engaged amid the crisis and noted that assignment came through an attorney's office, which she said is increasingly one method in which the firm has gained crisis, issues management and public affairs assignments.
Solo added that members of the firm are "somewhat familiar" with key executives at Barr-Nunn, which expedited interest and an agreement in having Strategic America support the company through the crisis.
SA works for clients like Great Western Bank, HunterDouglas, the Iowa Corn Promotion Board and JiffyLube.