Multiple Deaths, Injuries in Kan. Workplace Shooting

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Multiple people were killed and several dozen injured after an employee at Excel Industries in Hesston, Kan., opened fire Thursday.

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According to several news sources, the shooter has been identified as Cedric Ford, 38. Police have not confirmed the suspectโ€™s identity but said that authorities killed the shooter.

โ€œThere could be as many as three or four others [dead], and possibly up to 20 people that have been injured,โ€ Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton told reporters, CNN reports.

According to the news station, officers responded to several calls of a shooting at Excel Industries, which makes lawn-care products. The first call noted that a man had been shot while driving; another said that there had been shooting in the companyโ€™s parking lot. The last call reported that the shooter had entered the workplace.

โ€œI saw the shooter get out of his truck, shoot someone down and go into the building,โ€ Excel employee Matt Gerald, who was on a smoke break when the shooting happened, told the Hesston Record. โ€œI was flabbergasted. I was at a loss for words.โ€

Sheriff Walton said authorities were still investigating the incident.

โ€œThis is just a horrible incident thatโ€™s happened here,โ€ the sheriff said, CNN reports. โ€œItโ€™s going to be a lot of sad people before this is all over.โ€

Read more at CNN.

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