On Thursday, February 25, 2016, 30-year-old Renee Randall Benjamin, an African American woman, was fatally shot while at work inside the Excel Industries plant in Hesston, Kansas. Benjamin was one of three employees killed inside the lawnmower manufacturing facility; coworkers Joshua Higbee and Brian Sadowsky were also killed. The shooter, 38-year-old Cedric Larry Ford, began a spree that afternoon, firing at random vehicles in Newton and Hesston, wounding several people, then arriving at Excel Industries where he shot a woman in the parking lot before entering the plant and firing on coworkers.

Ford used a semi-automatic rifle and a pistol and wounded 14 others during the rampage. He was confronted and killed by Hesston Police Chief Doug Schroeder. Investigators reported Ford had been served with a protection from abuse order roughly 90 minutes before the shooting. A woman, Sarah Jo Hopkins, later pleaded guilty to knowingly transferring firearms to Ford, a convicted felon who was legally prohibited from possessing them.

If anyone worked with Renee or was at Excel Industries that day, did you notice anyone acting unusually in the hours before the attack?