Sheriff: Up to 7 dead, 20 injured in Kansas workplace shooting

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HESSTON, Kan.

A workplace shooting in Hesston, about 35 miles north of Wichita, has left four to seven people dead and has injured as many as 20, according to Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton.

The sheriff said Thursday evening that the number of people injured could be as high as 30.

“This is just a horrible incident here,” he said. “It’s going to be a lot of sad people before this is all over.”

The shooting at Excel Industries, which employs about 1,000 people, was reported shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday, a Harvey County dispatcher said.

Walton later confirmed that a suspect, an employee at the turf care products manufacturer, was shot and killed by law enforcement officers between 5:30 and 5:45 p.m. The shooter, a Harvey County resident, was armed with a long gun and a handgun, according to Walton.

http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article62530532.html

[SVPete]

Some interesting background about the city and the shooting.

[SVPete]

Haven't heard much follow-up on this story, on this side of the country. Knowing that means the national-level MSM have found nothing to further their standard narratives and agendas, I nosed around a bit just now:

Wichita hospitals release conditions of Hesston shooting victims

There are yet 3 victims whose conditions are very serious.

After Hesston shooting, some answers

The now-deceased murderer was "triggered" by receiving a protective order on the behalf of his live-in GF ... and responded by shooting random people with whom he worked, people with no part in the dispute with his GF. His Baby Mama (different from his current GF) had at some earlier time "transferred" to the murderer the guns he used; she probably also acted as a "straw buyer" for him. With the murderer being killed and Baby Mama (probably) being prison bound, their 2YO and a 4YO children will be left without parents, which does not augur good for their future lives. Because the murderer was shooting people at random opportunity, the police chief, who took him on without waiting for back-up, may have saved any number of lives.

Authorities still piecing together facts in Hesston shooting at Excel plant

The FBI, ATF, and KBI have mostly wound up their involvement. I guess with the one police officer who was involved in the shooting being the hero - by stopping the shooting - there's no basis or motive for making a Federal case of it. No doubt this will show up in stats as a white police officer killing a black male, it just has to be cleansed of the details. KBI seems incurious about Baby Mama "transferring" and possibly straw-purchasing the guns used by the murderer.

As for the national MSM:

* The murderer was black;

* The white police officer who shot the black male was a hero;

* A mass shooting was stopped by the use of a gun;

* The murderer obtained his guns in violation of existing gun laws - i.e. wasn't stopped by those existing laws.

No narrative or agenda served, making this shooting a "local story".

[RobJohnson]

The DUmmies know the only way to prevent all of this gun violence in the workplace is to avoid work.