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Breaking: 4 To 7 Dead, 20-30 Wounded In Workplace Shooting In Hesston, Kansas

  • by: Alan Duke
  • (Thu, 25 Feb 2016 23:46:39 Z)

STORY UPDATED: check for updates below.

Hesston, Kansas, police are on the scene of a workplace shooting at Excel Industries where several people are reported dead, according to local media. fatalities and others wounded.

KSN-TV is reporting that the shooting has been critically wounded.

Excel manufactures lawn care products including riding lawnmowers.

Watch KAKE-TV's live coverage and scroll down for updates.

Updates:

: One worker, who said he was lived next to the Cedric Ford, described the attack. “He was just unloading on everybody,” Jared Trujillo said. “As people were walking out he was firing on them.” “The talk around the plant was he had some mental issues,” Trujillo said. “He was being teased a little bit.”

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: From man named as shooter's Facebook page:

: Hesston plant shooter identified as Cedric Ford, KAKE-TV reports.

: One worker, who said he was lived next to the shooter, described the attack. “He was just unloading on everybody,” the worker said. “As people were walking out he was firing on them.” “The talk around the plant was he had some mental issues,” the worker said. “He was being teased a little bit.”

: “He was traveling and shooting from his car,” sheriff says.

: Harvey County, Kansas, Sheriff T. Walton says between 20 and 30 people were wounded and somewhere between four and seven are dead, including the shooter. The shooter was killed by a law enforcement officer. The Hesston plant was not the only shooting location, Sheriff Walton said. “He was traveling and shooting from his car."

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: Police say 4 dead and 15 others wounded in Excel Industries plant attack, KAKE-TV reports.

: The ex-worker identified by other Excel Industries employees as the shooter posted a photo of an AK-47 rifle on his Facebook page just last week.

: The former worker first chased office workers and then “he just started spraying everybody in the production area,” a plant worker named Marty said. “I heard pop, pop, pop.” He saw a robot operator who stuck his head into a hallway to see what was happening was shot in his leg.

: Video shows police searching the Excel plant's roof top.

: Two plant workers told a local TV reporter that nine people were shot, two of the now dead. The shooter was a former worker at the lawn mower factory who pulled up to the plant’s parking lot where he pulled out an AK47 rifle and shot a woman and then fired at several police officers.

: This is a look inside the lawn mower plant posted just a day earlier on Facebook.

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: Witness tells local TV that the shooter walked out of the plant to a parking lot, took a rifle out of a vehicle, returned inside and began firing.

: Harvey County, Kansas, sheriff confirmed "multiple deaths." A local radio station reported two are dead. Nearby Hesston College is on lockdown.

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Editor-in-Chief Alan Duke co-founded Lead Stories after ending a 26-year career with CNN, where he mainly covered entertainment, current affairs and politics. Duke closely covered domestic terrorism cases for CNN, including the Oklahoma City federal building bombing, the UNABOMBER and search for Southeast bomber Eric Robert Rudolph. CNN moved Duke to Los Angeles in 2009 to cover the entertainment beat. Duke also co-hosted a daily podcast with former HLN host Nancy Grace, "Crime Stories with Nancy Grace" and hosted the podcast series "Stan Lee's World: His Real Life Battle with Heroes & Villains." You'll also see Duke in many news documentaries, including on the Reelz channel, CNN and HLN.

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