Category Archives: Shooting

Kansas Workplace Shooting Leaves 4 Dead, 14 Wounded

Three people were killed and 14 wounded in an horrific shooting at a Kansas workplace and two other locations Thursday evening, authorities said.

The shooter, an employee at Excel Industries — one of the scenes — was killed by police, Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton said in a press conference Thursday.

The gunman was identified as 38-year-old Newton resident Cedric Larry Ford, two law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation told ABC News.

Police said the shooter fired from his car and shot people at two nearby locations before unleashing a hail of bullets in the factory, hitting 15 people, and killing three of them.

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CBS journalists shot and killed during live broadcast in Virginia

A pair of television journalists at a CBS affiliate in Virginia were shot and killed during a live broadcast Wednesday morning, and the shooter is still at-large.

According to WDBJ-TV president and general manager Jeff Marks, the victims, reporter Alison Parker, 24, and her 27-year-old cameraman Adam Ward died shortly after the shooting, which occurred at approximately 6:45 a.m. at Bridgewater Plaza in Moneta, Va., near Smith Mountain Lake.

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