Workplace violence. Pathetic..
http://m.kwch.com/news/police-respon...sston/38197242
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Workplace violence. Pathetic..
http://m.kwch.com/news/police-respon...sston/38197242
That's what I read earlier, but this is apparently something larger with "multiple crime scenes". The info coming out is really spotty. The FBI and state police are being called in to assist.
well they haven't pulled his FB page yet, looks like he had small children...not sure the situation, but just can't ever see leaving your kids in that kinda lurch.
tired of these shitheads hurting people
I guess no outrage if the shooting is not to their adgenda.
Shooter had a lengthy criminal record. "...there are four to five crime scenes in this case."
Happened in yet another "gun free zone".
He was also a felon and domestic violence offender, so whatever guns he had were already illegally obtained.
Kansas has gone way pro gun since I left in 2002 so I doubt this will encourage any dumb laws like here.
Get some cops to check criminals Facebook pages to see if they have pictures or videos with illegal guns. It makes more sense than trying to ban anything firearm related from law-abiding citizens.
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Originally Posted by Kraven251
The only upside to this mess is . The kids were left alive.
Glad to hear that, hadn't seen any news about it one way or the other, and feared the worst on that front.Quote:
Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo
He also may not have had custody of the kids or been involved in their lives much. Still sucks to leave your kids knowing that their dad was a murderer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraven251
Very glad that the first Officer in put him down. I think this just adds to my thoughts that just because your at work doesn't meant your safe, even if there's is "security" in place. It also reiterated my belief no job should be able to take away our right to defend ourselves by legally carrying concealed just because we are at work to there's already "security" in place.
On his Facebook page, there's a post on September 20, 2015 where he appears to be shooting a full auto AK. I don't think I see a bump fire stock on it, and he's firing from the hip so it wouldn't work anyway, would it?
https://www.facebook.com/cedric.ford.161
Makes no difference. To the anti-gun movement, he was a deranged white NRA Terrorist. Even though his "history" and pictures negate said hysteria.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rucker61
Yet still they rail against that OUTDATED PIECE OF PAPER and DEMAND TOUGHER GUN LAWS!
Wonder what they will find in his abode that the country will demand be eliminated from society. Like a Confederate Flag[pileoshit]
First armed person to confront the criminal is usually the person who ends the violence.
Does it really matter if that person is carrying a badge or not? Probably not to the next intended targets of the criminal.
Be safe.
Woman charged with providing guns to Kansas shooter
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Investigators said Friday that the gunman who opened fire at a Kansas factory where he worked received a court order 90 minutes before the rampage and obtained the two weapons used in the attack from a friend.
Sarah Hopkins, 28, of Newton, Kan., is charged with one count of knowingly transferring a firearm to a convicted felon. Prosecutors allege Hopkins, a friend of Cedric Ford, knew about his criminal history before giving him the semi-automatic rifle and handgun he used in the rampage that left 3 dead and 14 others wounded.
The Wichita Eagle reported Hopkins is the mother of Ford's two children. She moved out of her home with Ford in July and retrieved the guns from the house less than a month later with the help of police, the Eagle reported, citing an affidavit in the case. Shortly thereafter, Hopkins gave the guns back to Ford "because Ford had threatened her," the paper reported.
Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton said Friday that his office served Ford, 38, with the protection-from-abuse order at 3:30 p.m. Thursday and the move is likely was set off killing spree. Such orders are typically served "because there's some type of violence in a relationship," he added.
Ford worked at Excel Industries, a plant in Hesston that makes lawn-mower products. The dead were all killed inside the building, and were chosen at random, Walton said.
Speaking by phone to Hesston Mayor David Kauffman on Friday, President Obama “offered his condolences to the loved ones of those who were lost and his gratitude to police officer and other first responders who acted quickly to save lives," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said.
Ford was accused of assault by a woman who identified herself in Sedgwick County court records as his live-in girlfriend, according to The Wichita Eagle.
The woman, in a written petition for protection from abuse that was filed Feb. 5, said Ford “placed me in a choke hold from behind – I couldn’t breathe.”
“He is an alcoholic, violent, depressed,” she wrote in her petition, in capital letters, according to the Wichita Eagle. “It’s my belief he is in desperate need of medical & psychological help!”
Walton said Ford was upset when he received the protective order at work, but that recipients are often upset in those circumstances.
“He didn’t display anything that was outrageous," Walton said. “He just displayed that he was upset with this order."
The shootings began about 5 p.m. as the gunman drove toward the plant. He opened fire and shot a man in another car, wounding him in the shoulder. Another person was shot in the leg at an intersection a short time later. The gunman was firing a .223-caliber long gun and also had a pistol, Walton said.
Hesston Police Department Sgt. Chris Carter was off-duty when the shooting began but was one of the first officers to arrive on the scene. Walton called him a "hero" for loading one of the victims, who had been shot in the parking lot, into his pickup to get him help.
“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. “Overwhelming. But we’re on auto-pilot. We’re trained for these. We just do what we’re trained to do."
Permissive judicial system. Cons who game the system 24/7Quote:
Originally Posted by Tor Larson