Posted on 02/26/2016 5:56:45 AM PST by marktwain
Four people were killed and 14 others injured in a Thursday afternoon rampage through a rural Kansas county that ended with the death of the gunman at police hands.
The gunman, identified by several Wichita news outlets as Cedric Ford, was a disgruntled worker at Excel Industries in Hesston, which suffered all the fatalities.
Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton told reporters late in the evening that the gunman killed three Excel workers people before the first officer called to the scene shot him dead. Sheriff Walton said the gunman fired at people from his truck in nearby Newton streets and wounded one person. Another person was shot on Highway 81 on the way to Hesston.
He arrived at the Excel parking lot and shot one person, before going inside the plant and began shooting.
Sheriff Walton said five of the victims were in critical condition Thursday night.
âIt was a black male with an AK-47 who was an employee, or used to be,â one woman told Wichita TV station KAKE just outside Excel, a company that makes Big Dog and Hustler mowing equipment. Eyewitness from inside the factory confirmed her account.
Ford fits that description, and the Facebook page of a Cedric Ford identifies him as an Excel worker and shows photos and videos of Ford wielding and using multiple firearms. He had a criminal record in Kansas and his native Florida, according to KWCH, the CBS affiliate in Wichita.
The woman told KAKE that her husband is a supervisor at Excel and she had other friends at the plant, one of whom she said had been shot and critically injured. She said she got her information from her husband inside the plant during a company head count for survivors.
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You shoulda heard the local news reports on this guy last night. Skirting the fact this guy is black and avoiding the giant black elephant in the room as they SO, SO longed for a plausible explanation of why a madman has killed folks.
Really embarrassing, even for Kansas. Journalist hacks are journalist hacks. Even in fly-over country.
My first responce was (living much more rural than Heston/Wichita, and assuming is was probly a white guy, cause their aint many ‘other than white guys’ out here,) that
‘maybe the right folks got shot.’
And the sign said, “Long-haired freaky people need not apply”
So I tucked my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why
He said, “You look like a fine upstanding young man, I think you’ll do”
So I took off my hat, I said, “Imagine that, huh, me workin’ for you”
Whoa, oh, oh
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind
Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign?
And the sign said, Anybody caught trespassin’ would be shot on sight
So, I jumped on the fence and-a yelled at the house
“Hey, what gives you the right?
To put up a fence to keep me out or to keep mother nature in
If God was here, He’d tell you to your face, man, you’re some kinda sinner”
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind
Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign?
Now, hey you, Mister, can’t you read?
You’ve got to have a shirt and tie to get a seat
You can’t even watch, no you can’t eat
You ain’t supposed to be here
The sign said, You got to have a membership card to get inside, ugh
And the sign said, “Everybody welcome, come in, kneel down and pray”
But when they passed around the plate at the end of it all
I didn’t have a penny to pay
So, I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own little sign
I said, “Thank you, Lord, for thinkin’ ‘bout me, I’m alive and doin’ fine, woo
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind
Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign?
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Sign
Sign, sign
Our country is in the control of Leftists, caught in the arrested development stage of life.
.223/5.56 and 5.45 X 39 AK mags look almost the same. That looks like one of those aftermarket 50 round mags, which do look strange compared to to the 30 round mags.
Yeah, those anti gun signs just don’t disable those manual guns. They only work on them thar digital guns. //sarc
“Our country is in the control of Leftists, caught in the arrested development stage of life.”
I have a big collection of “hippie” era music, and love it all (including the song above)...but I hate hippies, libs, leftists.
Alas, it’s too late in life to try to solve that conundrum.
I stand corrected - strange that the AK-74 mags would be less curved, the 5.45 uses the same bolt face diameter as the 7.62x39. Both cartridge cases are similarly tapered.
I am searching for the photo of a young lady shooting a rifle with the caption: “teach your daughters to shoot because a restraining order is just a piece of paper.”
Cedric the entertainer is black too.
I’m with you.....love a lot of the music, but outgrew the immaturity of the ‘movement’.
That seems unfair. He didn’t read the signs, apparently. /s
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