Four dead, 14 wounded in Kansas shooting by co-worker

 

Four people were killed and 14 were wounded, several of them critically, when an employee opened fire at a lawn mower factory in a small Kansas town, police said.

Harvey County Sheriff T Walton said the dead included the gunman, an employee at Excel Industries, located in a tight-knit community north of Wichita.

Walton said the first officer to arrive at the scene of the shooting took place late last night shot the gunman, saving "many, many lives."

"This is a horrible situation, just terrible," Walton said, adding that his department received a call from the White House after the incident.

Walton said authorities had information on "some things that triggered this individual," but he would not elaborate.

The sheriff initially had said that up to seven people had been killed and up to 30 wounded but later revised the toll downwards.

The carnage was the latest in a string of mass shootings in the United States, where such attacks have become commonplace.