Key events in the deadly attack on a Kansas factory

Most of the incidents occurred in Broward County, Fla., and date back to 1996. Ford was described as being upset but not out of the ordinary.

On Thursday, 38-year-old Cedric Young allegedly killed three people at the lawn-mower factory where he worked in Hesston, Kansas.

The first police officer to reach the scene, Hesston Police Chief Doug Schroeder, killed Ford in an exchange of gunfire, said police secretary Jeannine Hoheisel.

The sheriff added that the person who filed the order did not work at Excel. “It was nearly like a smile on his face”. He also pointed to last weekend’s shooting spree in Kalamazoo, Michigan, when an Uber driver killed six people and injured three others.

“I believe that probably is the trigger, and it went from there”, Walton said of the order. “I looked right at him and he looked right at me”, Espinoza said. Another post Tuesday is accompanied a YouTube video of Billy Blue’s Get Like Me, which features the rapper Brisco.

A judge issued a temporary order of protection earlier this month for a woman who said in her petition that Ford was a violent, depressed alcoholic. “It’s my belief he’s in desperate need of medical and psychological help”.

Just before that, she had called the manager of the mobile home park to tell him that Ford was playing music too loudly.

The victims were transported to area hospitals as family members rushed to the factory for news of their loved ones. “He was into cars”.

Ford, who a co-worker said was a second-shift painter at Excel, also spent considerable time in Florida, where he had felony convictions for burglary, grand theft and carrying a concealed weapon. Ford was supposed to relieve him, he said, but he was nowhere to be seen. Ford then shot the motorist and took the person’s vehicle.

Jarrell told The Associated Press on Friday that someone else eventually spelled him and that he was sitting in his truck in the parking lot when he saw Ford drive up in a truck that wasn’t his. I don’t know how much he had. The woman writes down Excel Industries’ address, 200 S. Ridge Road in Hesston, as the place he can be served.

On Ford’s page – which was taken down Friday afternoon – he shared his fondness for rap, guns, cars and children.

On Facebook, Ford said he was a single man and a native of Miami who lived in Newton, Kan.

Walton said Ford was already known to local law enforcement.

Walton had earlier said, without naming Schroeder, that the chief had saved “multiple, multiple lives…He’s a hero as far as I’m concerned”.

Police identified the victims as Renee Benjamin, 30; Joshua Higbee, 31; and Brian Sadowsky, 44 – all Excel employees, according to the Harvey County Sheriff’s Office.

Jarrell recalled one particular conversation he and Ford had about a visit to the zoo, CNN affiliate KSNW reported. “We’re working on that”, Walton said at the news conference.

“He never came off to be a bad guy”. “And that’s got to change”, Obama said Friday at an event in Jacksonville, Fla. meant to highlight the success of his 2009 economic stimulus plan. “Anybody who says they want to keep the American people safe has to care about this”.

Ford walked inside and opened fire on his co-workers – killing three and sending others running for their lives.