“All I can say is he’s been in my jail a couple of times before”, Walton said.
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On Thursday, 38-year-old Cedric Young allegedly killed three people at the lawn-mower factory where he worked in Hesston, Kansas. There was only one shooter involved, Walton said.
At least 14 people were wounded.
Walton identified the man who opened fire Thursday at the Hesston, Kansas plant where he worked, killing three people and wounding others.
Erin McDaniel, spokeswoman for the nearby city of Newton, said the suspect was known to local authorities. Eventually, she says, he let her go.
The protection of abuse order, first filed by a live-in girlfriend earlier this month, may have triggered Cedric Larry Ford in the chaotic shooting spree in Newton and Hesston, about 30 miles north of Wichita, authorities said. The shooting started on the road, before the gunman reached Excel Industries, the sheriff said.
“What crossed my mind was finding the bad buy, protecting everyone else who was there”, Carter said about arriving at the plant where some of his relatives work.
One of those wounded during the attack, Jesus Fierros, 25, told the New York Times from his hospital bed, “I just heard the gunshots and I just took off running”.
“I want to particularly recognize and thank the law enforcement community that responded so aggressively and rapidly to this situation”, the governor said. “Three of those were fatalities”, Walton said.
“Gunfire was exchanged between law enforcement and the shooter, and law enforcement shot and killed the shooter”, Walton said. The suspect wasn’t immediately identified. He told KAKE-TV he wasn’t sure if the man had been fired. He heard people yelling to others to get out of the building, then heard popping, then saw the shooter, a co-worker he described as typically pretty calm.
At that point, the gunman got a different gun and Mr Espinoza ran.
The shooting took place in Hesston, Kansas, at the town’s major employer, a lawnmower manufacturing company.
“This is just a terrible incident….”
Federal authorities on the scene, including the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives said the shooting was not terrorism-related.
Excel Industries’ CEO, Paul Mullet. said Friday that his first priority is his employees’ “safety and wellness”.
“I believe that probably is the trigger, and it went from there”, Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton said Friday.
Armed with an assault rifle and a pistol, Ford took aim at a second approaching vehicle, but the female driver wasn’t hit. The man who opened fire in a Louisiana movie theater during a viewing of “Trainwreck” in July had a history of domestic violence.
Excel Industries was founded there in 1960.
Kansas officials responded to news of the shooting on Twitter.
Ford’s stream on the site is filled with rap videos, a mention of a auto show he said he was looking forward to this weekend and photos of children romping at the Wichita Zoo.
At 3:30 p.m. he gets served.
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Further police analysis of the scene confirms that Ford died in a gun battle with a cop inside of the lawn mower company. Police go through the parking lot of Excel Industries in Hesston, Kan., Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, where a gunman killed an undetermined number of people and injured many more.
