“We’re working on that”, Walton said.
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On Thursday afternoon, 14 people were wounded and three were killed by a man who witnesses identified as Cedric Ford in Hesston, Kansas.
Authorities say the majority of the gunman’s victims were coworkers at the plant, but that several people were wounded when he began shooting out the window of his vehicle, including one man on the street in the nearby town of Newton and another person at an intersection.
Other news outlets, including ABC, CNN and the Wichita Eagle, have also named Ford as the suspected shooter, citing eyewitnesses and unnamed law enforcement officials. “It was nearly like a smile on his face”.
Walton said his office served Ford with a protective order Thursday, about an hour and half before the first shooting was reported.
Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton said authorities believed the roommate of the suspect may have been inside the home.
The sheriff said it’s possible the court order incited the workplace carnage. According to the report, earlier this month, a woman filed an order of protection against Ford, alleging he’d strangled her. She alleges that during an argument on February 5, Ford grabbed her and put her in a chokehold until she couldn’t breathe. Those names will be released later when I get the final coroner’s report.
The woman described Ford as an “alcoholic, violent(ly) depressed”. “It’s my belief he’s in desperate need of medical and psychological help”.
“What crossed my mind was finding the bad guy, protecting everyone else who was there”, Carter said. “He was into cars”.
Martin Espinoza, who works at Excel, was in the plant during the attack, he told the AP. The painter who took Jarrell’s place was one of three people in Ford’s department to be shot, according to Jarrell. After shooting a second person, he returned to the factory, where he opened fire on his co-workers. “I didn’t know someone was shooting”.
Excel Industries is a family-owned business founded in 1960, according to The Kansas City Star. The page shows images of guns along with what look like family photos. Jarrell said he heard Ford say, “This ain’t nothing like back home”.
– December 14, 2012: In Newtown, Connecticut, an armed 20-year-old man entered Sandy Hook Elementary School and used a semi-automatic rifle to kill 26 people, including 20 first graders and six adult school staff members. “I don’t have a lot of answers”, Walton said.
Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton held another news conference Friday morning to discuss the latest findings in the investigaton. Little things we take for granted, all the time.
Dennis Britton Jr. suffered a fracture in his right leg when a bullet went through his buttocks and out his leg. Reuters was not able to independently confirm the authenticity of the Facebook page.
“It was awesome I (sic) never seen wildlife in my life besides pitbull and Rottweiler puppies lol” he wrote in a January 30 post. He took the pair to children’s events, Jarrell said.
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Authorities have identified the three people killed as Renee Benjamin, 30, Brian Sadowsky, 44, and Josh Higbee, 31. Johnson escaped the attack without any injuries, but he was at Via Christi Hospital St. Francis in Wichita on Thursday night visiting a co-worker in critical condition.
