Suspect in Kansas shooting had been served protection order

Britton said he did not see the gunman shoot him, but he did see him shoot two other people.

Hinson, who said she had known Higbee for over a decade, said he “worked long, hard hours to take care of his family”, and treated his fiancee “like a queen, as he was raised to do”. In addition to three people killed, 14 were wounded counting two shot as he drove to the plant.

In Kansas, he had a misdemeanor conviction in a 2008 fighting or brawling case and various traffic violations from 2014 and 2015. Both guns were traced to a woman with whom shooter Cedric Ford used to be involved.

Sarah Hopkins, 28, is accused of giving Cedric Ford a semi-automatic rifle and 40 caliber handgun. Court records did not indicate if she has an attorney.

The page says Ford lived in Newton and was from Miami. Newton police at a later date met her at the home so she could retrieve the weapons, which she had purchased.

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. She is not the woman who sought the order of protection.

A 31-year-old man killed during a shooting rampage at a Kansas factory is being remembered as an engaged vehicle lover, avid fisherman and a devoted father to his 4-year-old son.

Authorities confirmed the shooter was an employee at Excel, but did not release a name or a motive.

Authorities believe a restraining order served to Cedric Ford 90 minutes before he opened fire at a Hesston plant was what led to the shooting.

Walton said Ford was upset by the order but didn’t display any “outrageous” behaviour at the time. “It’s my belief he is in desperate need of medical & psychological help!”

Ford started firing in the parking lot, wounding one person, then kept it up as he went inside. Ford was supposed to relieve him, he said, but he was nowhere to be seen. Asked what he meant by that, Jarrell said that Ford felt he that other crew members “nitpicked” him, “trying to get above him” in a paint department that is its “own little family”.

Law enforcement in Hesston, a town of about 3,800 people, have said Thursday’s mass killing was not terror related. “There’s a shooter. They’re shooting at us, ‘” Trujillo said. The 14 wounded victims were at hospitals in fair to critical condition. “I can only imagine what she is going through”.

Dennis Britton Sr., of Newton, Kan., pauses while discussing the…

“What crossed my mind was finding the bad buy, protecting everyone else who was there”, Carter said told reporters about arriving at the plant where some of his relatives work.

The carnage left people grasping for answers in Hesston, a small city of about 3,700 people located about 35 miles north of Wichita. Excel Industries was founded there in 1960 and manufactures Hustler and Big Dog mowing equipment.