Kansas police chief did 'heroic duty and service'

Feb 28, 2016, 02:51

The shooter was dead by 5:23 p.m. Walton described the officer who took him down as "a hero as far as I'm concerned".

He says Ford shot and wounded three people before storming the Excel Industries lawnmower parts factory in Hesston and shooting 15 others, killing three of them.

As more details about the man allegedly responsible for Thursday's shooting spree at a Kansas factory continue to emerge, 7News has learned his troubled past leads back to South Florida, where he was charged with several crimes over almost a decade.

Prosecutors said Hopkins knew Ford was a convicted felon and was not allowed to have the firearms.

Sarah Hopkins faces 10 years in prison if convicted of giving the assault-style rifle and Glock.40-caliber handgun to Ford while knowing he was a convicted felon who was prohibited from possessing firearms, according to the statement.

All of those killed and all but two of those wounded Thursday were struck in and around the building of the gunman's employer, a lawn care equipment manufacturer in Hesston, Kansas, authorities said.

As to his encounters with law enforcement in Kansas, Walton said briefly, "He's been in my jail a couple of times before".

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The gunman was shot and killed by an officer identified as Doug Schroder, the chief of the Hesston Police Department.

Britton said he did not see the gunman shoot him, but he did see him shoot two other people.

"Had that Hesston officer not done what he did, this would be a whole lot more tragic", Walton said.

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The shootings began about 5 p.m. when the gunman shot a man on the street from a auto, wounding him in the shoulder.

Inside the building, armed with an assault rifle and a pistol, he shot 14 coworkers.

According to media reports, Ford had recently moved to the area from Miami, and had an extensive criminal record including a history of prowling, loitering and illegal weapons possession. Dellinger works on an assembly line in the plant's large, open main room and is accustomed to loud sounds, so he said he didn't think anything of it. But then he said he saw Ford standing in the open doorway to the parking lot, holding a gun.

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At 3:30 p.m. a protection from abuse order from Wichita was served to Ford where he worked at the Excel plant. Burnett helped the man outside, where others tried to stop the bleeding and called 911.

Walton said authorities are expected to release the name of the officer later in the morning.

Ford started firing at the paint line, Dellinger said, and then at the assembly line next to Dellinger's.

Law enforcement vehicles surrounded the suspect's home in a trailer park in Newton later Thursday night.

The father, a 20-year veteran, recalled how his son looked up at him from the ambulance at the plant and said, "It hurts". "I mean, that vivid".

The investigation is just getting underway, Walton said.

In Kansas, he had a misdemeanor conviction in a 2008 fighting or brawling case and various traffic violations from 2014 and 2015.

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