Kansas shooting: Sheriff trusts assurance request started butchery

A hour and a half before he started shooting in focal Kansas, Cedric Ford got served an assurance from misuse request - a demonstration a nearby sheriff thinks drove him to kill three individuals and wound 16 others.

"I trust that most likely is the trigger, and it went from that point," Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton said Friday.

Walton said that Ford was "somewhat vexed" however "didn't show anything ... over the top" when a sheriff's delegate served him the request at 3:30 p.m. (4:30 p.m. ET) Thursday at his work environment, Excel Industries in Hesston, Kansas.

At that point came a call to police, around 5 p.m., that a man driving his two youngsters had been shot in the shoulder in close-by Newton. Another call arrived in a brief span later about somebody who'd been driven off the street into a trench, been shot, and had his or her auto stolen, by.

While powers reacted at these locales - having no clue where the shooter was heading next - Ford went to Excel, the garden think hardware maker about 6 miles from the main shooting scene.

The 38-year-old began terminating in the parking garage, then kept it up as he went inside.

"He was arbitrarily shooting individuals," the Harvey County sheriff said. "... I'm not mindful he said a thing."

The gore finished because of a solitary Hesston cop who went inside, drew in Ford in gunfire and slaughtered him around 5:24 p.m., as indicated by Walton.

"There was most likely 2 or 300 more individuals in that building while this was going on," the sheriff said. "This man was not going to quit shooting.

"The main reason he quit shooting was on account of that officer halted (him)."