Three dead, 15 injured in Kansas factory shooting

A man who wounded three people before storming into the central Kansas factory where he worked and shooting 15 others, killing three of them, had just been served a protection from abuse order that likely triggered the attack, a sheriff said.

The attack on Thursday evening at the Excel Industries lawnmower parts plant in Hesston ended when a police officer killed the attacker during a shootout, Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton said.

He described the officer as a “tremendous hero” because there were still 200 or 300 other people in the factory and that the “shooter wasn’t done by any means”.