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   From: black.lies.matter@abc.com   
      
   The man suspected of killing three people at the Kansas   
   lawnmower factory where he worked was served 90 minutes before   
   his shooting spree with a court order to stay away from a woman   
   who said he had abused her, authorities said on Friday.   
      
   The suspect, identified as Cedric Ford, 38, was armed with a   
   .223-caliber assault-style rifle and a pistol as he fired   
   randomly at coworkers and others over about 30 minutes on   
   Thursday. Fourteen people were wounded.   
      
   The first police officer to reach the scene, Hesston Police   
   Chief Doug Schroeder, killed Ford in an exchange of gunfire,   
   said police secretary Jeannine Hoheisel. Hesston is a town of   
   about 4,000 people about 36 miles (60 km) north of Wichita.   
      
   "The man was not going to stop shooting," Harvey County Sheriff   
   T. Walton said on Friday, noting that there were up to 300   
   people in the Excel Industries factory where the worst of the   
   rampage took place. "The only reason he stopped shooting is   
   because that officer stopped the shooter."   
      
   Ford had been served a protection from abuse court order earlier   
   Thursday at the factory, which may have triggered the bloodshed,   
   though no motive has been determined, authorities said. He left   
   the factory after being served but began shooting about 90   
   minutes later.   
      
   The order, posted by the Wichita Eagle on its website, was   
   sought by an unidentified woman who had been living with Ford   
   and said he had been physically abusive. She wrote in the order   
   that he was alcoholic, violent, depressed and in need of medical   
   and psychological help.   
      
   Police identified the victims as Renee Benjamin, 30; Joshua   
   Higbee, 31; and Brian Sadowsky, 44 - all Excel employees,   
   according to the Harvey County Sheriff's Office.   
      
   The 14 wounded victims were at hospitals in fair to critical   
   condition.   
      
   Ford had a history of domestic violence, including arrests in   
   2008 and 2010, the sheriff's office said.   
      
   The shooting began with Ford firing out of his vehicle and   
   wounding two people as he drove through two cities back to the   
   factory, authorities said. He stole one victim's car, went to   
   Excel Industries and shot someone in the parking lot before   
   going inside.   
      
   A 28-year-old woman from Newton was charged on Friday with   
   illegally transferring two guns to Ford, said U.S. Attorney   
   Barry Grissom of Kansas in a statement. She had previously had a   
   relationship with Ford and had lived with him, according to the   
   affidavit.   
      
   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.   
      
   A lawyer for Hopkins could not be immediately identified.   
      
   The attack follows a mass shooting in Michigan last weekend,   
   when a driver for car-hailing service Uber [UBER.UL] was charged   
   with killing six people.   
      
   President Barack Obama, at an event in Jacksonville, Florida,   
   expressed exasperation with the U.S. Congress' failure to act on   
   gun violence issues.   
      
   "The real tragedy is the degree to which this has become   
   routine," he said.   
      
   The number of mass shootings in the United States has elevated   
   gun control as an issue in the November U.S. presidential   
   election.   
      
   (Reporting by Suzannah Gonzales in Chicago; Additional reporting   
   by Victoria Cavaliere in Los Angeles, Jeff Mason and Roberta   
   Rampton in Washington and Kevin Murphy in Kansas City, Missouri;   
   Writing by Jon Herskovitz and Mary Wisniewski; Editing by Lisa   
   Shumaker and Cynthia Osterman)   
      
   http://www.reuters.com/article/us-kansas-shooting-idUSKCN0VZ15K   
        
      
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