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Six Killed in Kentucky Factory Shooting, Including Gunman
ABC NEWS ^ | June 25, 2008 | RUSSELL GOLDMAN

Posted on 06/25/2008 8:16:04 AM PDT by RonPaulLives

A factory worker with a reputation for not getting along with co-workers went on a shooting spree at a Kentucky plastics plant early today after getting into an argument with his supervisor, police told ABC News. The gunman killed five other employees before shooting himself to death, police said. A seventh person who was wounded is listed in critical condition.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: banglist; factory; indiana; kentucky; shooting; workplace
First of all, if this has already been posted, feel free to pull this thread. I couldn't find it posted anywhere yet on FR. Secondly, I tried to do the "excerpt" thing, since I can no longer keep up (or care) on what sources we can or cannot post.
1 posted on 06/25/2008 8:16:05 AM PDT by RonPaulLives
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To: RonPaulLives
Question, where is Henderson?
2 posted on 06/25/2008 8:17:07 AM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: RonPaulLives

Just in time for the Supreme Court decision on Heller, likely tomorrow.


3 posted on 06/25/2008 8:20:16 AM PDT by Beelzebubba (Guns don't kill people, criminals and the governments that create them do.)
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To: gidget7

Henderson sits on the Ohio River in western Kentucky, about ten to fifteen miles from Evansville, Indiana. The article mentions this, but Free Republic won’t let me post the entire piece.


4 posted on 06/25/2008 8:20:52 AM PDT by RonPaulLives (I won't be a neo-pawn in the game.)
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To: gidget7

Western Kentucky on the Indiana border. Couple of miles south of Evansville.


5 posted on 06/25/2008 8:21:00 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: gidget7

Disregard, I checked on a map, thanks anyway


6 posted on 06/25/2008 8:21:26 AM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: gidget7

Directly across the Ohio river from Evansville, IN where I live. It’s been a madhouse for about 5 hours around here.


7 posted on 06/25/2008 8:21:49 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (I'mma do the things that I wanna do. I ain't got a thing to prove to you.)
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To: gidget7

It’s a quiet little town on the Ohio river. John James Audubon spent several years there.


8 posted on 06/25/2008 8:23:34 AM PDT by wordsofearnest ("The fundamental solution (w/b) that there is no longer any need to immigrate")
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To: RonPaulLives; wideawake
Thanks. It sounded familiar, don't think I have ever been there. Unless caves are there or some other historical site. But I have a lot of family in the area, just wanted to make sure there was no chance any of them worked in the area.
9 posted on 06/25/2008 8:23:38 AM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: CholeraJoe

What was it all about? Love triangle? Supervisor is mean? Worker is a psycho?...................


10 posted on 06/25/2008 8:24:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (If we drill deep enough, we can reach the Saudi oil fields from THIS side..........)
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To: RonPaulLives
Local newspaper story updated a/o 9:43 am CDT
11 posted on 06/25/2008 8:24:23 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (I'mma do the things that I wanna do. I ain't got a thing to prove to you.)
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To: CholeraJoe

Joe, give us some local updates, if you have them, since it’s in your backyard, so to speak.


12 posted on 06/25/2008 8:24:36 AM PDT by RonPaulLives (I won't be a neo-pawn in the game.)
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To: CholeraJoe

I can imagine! I hate to see this kind of thing, especialy in KY. The people there are the best!


13 posted on 06/25/2008 8:25:08 AM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: CholeraJoe

My daughter and her family live in Henderson. I was just down there for the Blues festival.


14 posted on 06/25/2008 8:25:25 AM PDT by wordsofearnest ("The fundamental solution (w/b) that there is no longer any need to immigrate")
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To: RonPaulLives

Gun-free zone?


15 posted on 06/25/2008 8:25:57 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (I've been waiting since 11/04/79 for us (US) to do something about Iran.)
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To: CholeraJoe

Thanks, Joe. You answered my question 13 seconds before I asked! LOL.


16 posted on 06/25/2008 8:26:03 AM PDT by RonPaulLives (I won't be a neo-pawn in the game.)
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To: Red Badger

Worker argued with supervisor then started shooting, then killed self.


17 posted on 06/25/2008 8:26:16 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (I'mma do the things that I wanna do. I ain't got a thing to prove to you.)
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To: CholeraJoe; Red Badger

Just hang loose, in a few days we will leak the truth. More than likely there were about to be lay-offs or something.


18 posted on 06/25/2008 8:29:06 AM PDT by Morgana (Muslims...............I can't believe these people are that crazy without alcohol!)
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To: CholeraJoe

Actually, worker had argument, went home, got handgun, came back and shot six coworkers, then offed himself - the coward.

Colonel, USAFR


19 posted on 06/25/2008 8:29:59 AM PDT by jagusafr ("Bugs, Mr. Rico! Zillions of 'em!" - Robert Heinlein)
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To: Morgana

There is a 3pm news conference scheduled.


20 posted on 06/25/2008 8:31:25 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (I'mma do the things that I wanna do. I ain't got a thing to prove to you.)
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To: CholeraJoe

Are you at work?


21 posted on 06/25/2008 8:31:39 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: jagusafr

Killed supervisor and the guy he had argued with plus several others and himself, according to local paper quoting Henderson PD.


22 posted on 06/25/2008 8:34:52 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (I'mma do the things that I wanna do. I ain't got a thing to prove to you.)
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To: Old Professer

Yes, but not at the hospital right now.


23 posted on 06/25/2008 8:36:12 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (I'mma do the things that I wanna do. I ain't got a thing to prove to you.)
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To: RonPaulLives
What a damn shame. Looks like he was a pretty good shot.

Of course it would be better if the bad guys were incompetent but unfortunately evil has skill as well.

24 posted on 06/25/2008 8:36:42 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (Beware the fury of the man that cannot find hope or justice.)
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To: gidget7

Thanks. Most people think we are “hicks” or “hillbillies”. Of course, most of us are college educated, love the arts, etc. We just talk funny.


25 posted on 06/25/2008 8:40:25 AM PDT by KYGrandma (The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home)
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To: RonPaulLives

Just horrible..all those families devastated.

He was escorted out but let back in? How stupid is that? And wasn’t anyone armed in that place? Just the killer...


26 posted on 06/25/2008 8:42:36 AM PDT by eleni121 (EN TOUTO NIKA!! +)
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To: CholeraJoe

Have they released any names?


27 posted on 06/25/2008 8:46:28 AM PDT by JRochelle (Barak to Muslim women: "Your seats are in the back of the bus.")
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To: RonPaulLives
I am sure the left will use this incident to further pound the USSC to deny 2d amendment rights under the Constitution, before they release the findings.
28 posted on 06/25/2008 8:49:50 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Obama is a lying piece of Marxist dung. He will destroy this Republic. He is an idiot.)
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To: RonPaulLives; All

Photo by Mike Lawrence A worker with American Enviro-Services cleans up an area surrounded by crime scene tape in front of the Atlantis Plastics plant in Henderson where an employee shot and killed five people at the plant in Henderson before killing himself early today, according to Henderson police Lt. David Piller. (Gleaner photo by Mike Lawrence 270 831-8346 or mlawrence@thegleaner.com) 06/25/2008

No names released yet. Shooter was a 25-year old Henderson man.

29 posted on 06/25/2008 8:52:55 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (I'mma do the things that I wanna do. I ain't got a thing to prove to you.)
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To: RonPaulLives

How sad... Prayers for all involved and their families and friends.


30 posted on 06/25/2008 9:20:32 AM PDT by LibertyRocks (My Blog - http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com & NEW http://exposingobama.wordpress.com)
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To: RonPaulLives

The company should be liable if they did not allow their employees to arm themselves while (obviously) not being able to guarantee their safety.


31 posted on 06/25/2008 9:23:48 AM PDT by Niteranger68 (Obama is the feces created when shame eats too much stupidity.)
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To: RonPaulLives

Something like this happens every time gun control is on the front burner. With the Heller decision due out tomorrow, It wouldn’t surprise me if the brady bunch somehow got this guy to do this in order to influence the decision.


32 posted on 06/25/2008 10:06:42 AM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: KYGrandma
I'll tell ya what Grandma!! I will take a hick or hillbilly over an elitist snob any day! Case in point, I live in the NE, and when I come back from a family visit, I go through culture shock, the difference is that drastic. People, by and large, in the NE are snobs, don't get involved, and even rude types. They are known for being “cold”.

God willing, I will retire to KY. Where people are still “neighborly! (these days, that is definitely a southern word.)

33 posted on 06/25/2008 10:16:08 AM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: aomagrat
It wouldn’t surprise me if the brady bunch somehow got this guy to do this in order to influence the decision.

Nothing that happens is going to change the decision.

The decision was made long ago, right now they are finishing up writing it.

34 posted on 06/25/2008 10:19:39 AM PDT by CurlyDave
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