Three men killed in attack worked for US security firm

WASHINGTON — Three men killed in Monday’s shooting attack at a police training centre near Amman worked for DynCorp International, the company said on Tuesday.

DynCorp, an American intelligence and security contractor, said in a statement that one of its employees killed in the incident was American, one was South African and the third was Jordanian.

The company identified the American victim as Lloyd “Carl” Fields, 46, of Cape Coral, Florida, a former deputy sheriff from Louisiana. DynCorp said Fields began working for the company as a police adviser in Iraq in 2006, and worked as a police adviser in Afghanistan before moving to the Jordan International Police Training Centre, where Monday’s shooting took place.

The company identified the South African killed in the shooting as Conrad Vaughn Whitehorn, 37, of Johannesburg, who previously had worked as a bodyguard and driver before joining DynCorp.

DynCorp said that the name of the Jordanian killed in the incident was not being immediately released “out of respect for the family’s privacy”.

US officials have said a second American working as an adviser at the Jordanian training facility also died in the shooting. But so far the victim and his employer have not been identified.