Mass shooting at Kansas factory

[Iceweasel]

This whole mass shooting thing is not about race or religion. There are examples of each and every group that have ran amuck. What it is about is a very rich nation that is awash in weapons, and does almost nothing for it's citizens that have mental problems. So, we see now about twice a week, mass shootings. And, since the answer for all too many, is more guns on the street, I am sure that we will be able to make it a daily occurrence.

I don't keep my guns on the street but yes, you should be locked up and given the help you need.

 

[tigerred59]

ANOTHER MASS SHOOTING AND NOT ONE SYG, GUN CARRYING 2ND AMENDMENT NRA SUCKER IN SIGHT....DAMN!!

 

[williepete]

Excellent response by LE. Saved a lot of lives.

The first call to 911 came at 4.57pm, when a motorist reported seeing a man in a grey Dodge Charger shooting wildly at a car park.

Law enforcement arrived on the scene at 5.06pm.

It took police just over 15 minutes to secure the area. At 5.23pm, Ford was shot down by police.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3464840/Three-dead-14-wounded-office-shooting-Kansas.html#ixzz41HWfeLZK

 

[August West]

This whole mass shooting thing is not about race or religion. There are examples of each and every group that have ran amuck. What it is about is a very rich nation that is awash in weapons, and does almost nothing for it's citizens that have mental problems. So, we see now about twice a week, mass shootings. And, since the answer for all too many, is more guns on the street, I am sure that we will be able to make it a daily occurrence.

Keep in mind that it`s only the white shooters that have mental problems. If the shooter is black he shot up the place because BLM told him to do it. Black and muslim shooters never have mental problems.

 

[JimH52]

Just another gun not and another mass shooting. Move along, nothing to see.

Wait, has Obama taken away all the guns yet?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Maybe the gun needs anger management help, it done got mad and went and killed people

 

[2aguy]

This whole mass shooting thing is not about race or religion. There are examples of each and every group that have ran amuck. What it is about is a very rich nation that is awash in weapons, and does almost nothing for it's citizens that have mental problems. So, we see now about twice a week, mass shootings. And, since the answer for all too many, is more guns on the street, I am sure that we will be able to make it a daily occurrence.

No...the answer is to lock up gun criminals....and to get rid of gun free killing zones...that attract these guys like flies to crap.

And keep in mind, there are Americans who use guns to actually stop violent criminal attack 1,500,000 times a year according to bill clinton and barak obama...but since most of those self defense actions don't leave a body on the ground they don't make the news....so disarming Americans would just make more dead bodies, not fewer......

And again...none of you anti gun nuts can explain this...

In 2013, 11.1 million people carried guns for self defense...and our gun crime and gun murder rate went down.

In 2014, over 13 million people are now carrying guns for self defense...and our gun crime rate and our gun murder rate went down.....

Sort of makes your whole post pretty stupid....doesn't it?

 

[waltky]

Cops: Kansas killer got guns illegally...

Many dead in workplace shooting in Kansas
Friday 26th February, 2016 Several people died and many were injured in a workplace shooting near Hesston, Kansas, including at a lawn care products factory, authorities said Thursday night. The gunman was also killed.

The shooting rampage happened at multiple locations, including Excel Industries, a manufacturer of turf care products in Harvey County, 35 miles north of Wichita, Sheriff T Walton told reporters at a news conference. Walton said the shooter was an employee of Excel but declined to identify him or say how long he had worked for the company. However, later local media identified the shooter as Cedric Larry Ford, an employee of Excel. KWCH released a photo, tweeting, "Multiple employees and witnesses confirm SHOOTER is Cedric Ford." Asked how many fatalities there may be, Walton said: "We know the shooter is down. There could be as many as three or four others and possibly up to 20 people injured." Walton said there could be as many as "five crime scenes".

One shooting took place in Newton, Kansas, with someone in a truck suffering a gunshot wound to the shoulder, Walton said. Another person was shot in the leg at another site, Walton said. One person was shot in the parking lot of the Excel site and the rest within the factory, Walton said. There are about four or five crime scenes in Newton, Harvey County, and Excel in Hesston, Walton said. Police eventually responded to an "active shooter" situation inside Excel Industries. "There's so many crime scenes and so many people," Walton said. The scene at Excel Industries has been secured, he said. Walton said he couldn't give an exact number of people killed and injured. "We want to get everybody identified. We're working on that," Walton said.

The shooting comes less than a week after a man opened fire at several locations in Kalamazoo, Michigan, leaving six people dead and two severely wounded. Walton said a lot was still unknown about the Kansas attacks. He did not explicitly say whether the shootings were related. "I don't have a lot of answers," Walton said. Martin Espinoza, who works at Excel, said he heard people yelling to others to get out of the building, and then heard popping sounds. He saw the shooter, a co-worker he described as typically pretty calm. One witness told KAKE television that the alleged shooter carried what looked to be an AK-47 assault rifle. Marty Pierce said he heard his coworkers yelling "fire" and that he narrowly missed being hit. "They were saying, 'Fire, fire,' " Pierce said. "We didn't know they were getting shot."

Hesston College nearby was on lockdown in the wake of the incident. "This is just a horrible incident that's happened here ... please bear with us as we try to get through this," Walton said. "There's going to be a lot of sad people before this is all over." Hesston is about 36 miles northwest of Wichita. Excel Industries is a family-owned business that was founded in 1960, according to the Kansas City Star. The company is a leading maker of turf-care products and distributes its mowing products through Hustler Turf Equipment and BIgDog Mower product lines, according to the company's website.

Many dead in workplace shooting at Kansas

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Kansas shooting: Sheriff believes protection order sparked carnage
February 26, 2016 - Ninety minutes before he opened fire in central Kansas, Cedric Ford got served a restraining order -- an act a local sheriff thinks led him to kill three people and wound 14 others. "I believe that probably is the trigger, and it went from there," Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton said Friday.

Walton said that Ford was "a little upset" but "didn't display anything ... outrageous" when a sheriff's deputy served him the order at 3:30 p.m. (4:30 p.m. ET) Thursday at his workplace, Excel Industries in Hesston. The court order commanded Ford to stay from his former girlfriend, who claimed he abused her. Then came a call to police, around 5 p.m., that a man driving his two children had been shot in the shoulder in nearby Newton. Another call came in a short time later about someone who'd been driven off the road into a ditch, been shot, and had his or her car stolen, according to Walton. While authorities responded at these sites -- having no idea where the shooter was heading next -- Ford went to Excel, the lawn care equipment manufacturer about 6 miles from the first shooting scene.

Police go through the parking lot of Excel Industries, which makes lawn care products.​

The 38-year-old started firing in the parking lot, wounding one person, then kept it up as he went inside. "He was randomly shooting people," the Harvey County sheriff said. "... I'm not aware he said a thing." The carnage ended thanks to a lone Hesston police officer who went inside, engaged Ford in gunfire and killed him around 5:24 p.m., according to Walton. "There was probably 2 or 300 more people in that building while this was going on," the sheriff said. "This man was not going to stop shooting. "The only reason he stopped shooting was because that officer stopped (him)." Hesston Police Chief Doug Schroeder was the officer who shot and killed Ford, department administrative assistant Jeannine Hoheisel said. According to Schroeder's Linkedin profile, he has been Hesston's chief for 18 years. Schroeder was unavailable for comment, she said.

Emergency workers gather at a staging area near Excel Industries. Up to 20 people may have been injured, the Harvey County sheriff said.​

Walton said Friday that the three people killed inside Excel Industries were Renee Benjamin, 30, Joshua Higbee, 31, and Brian Sadowsky, 44. A Newton woman was charged Friday with giving two weapons found at the scene to Ford, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. Sarah T. Hopkins, 28, was charged with one count of knowingly transferring a firearm to a convicted felon, Grissom announced. A criminal complaint identified the weapons as a Zastava Serbia semiautomatic rifle -- an AK-47-style gun -- and a Glock 22 40-caliber pistol. The complaint says the woman and Ford had a relationship at one point and she gave him the guns in August. Online records showed Hopkins was booked into the Sedgwick County Jail on Friday evening.

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