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当地时间2月25日，美国堪萨斯州哈维县发生枪击事件。据称，这起枪击造成包括枪手在内的4至7人死亡，多达30人受伤。
法新社援引哈维县警长沃顿的发言称，枪手是一家草坪用品制造公司的员工，已经被当局击毙。据美国哥伦比亚广播公司(CBS)消息，枪手的身份已经获得确认，是该公司员工塞德里克·福特。
目击者称，看到枪手先在该公司的停车场枪击了一名女性，随后进入工厂的组装区开火。警长称，枪击事件涉及4至5个犯罪现场。
此前的报道称，携带AK-47步枪的枪手被执法人员开枪击中。枪击案发生在当地时间下午5点。由于一名枪手活动，当地居民得到通知要躲起来。
哈维县警方称，当地时间25日下午，一名枪手闯入赫斯顿镇(Hesston)一家草坪用品制造公司开枪射击，造成2人死亡，3名伤者处于“危急状态”。枪手已被执法人员打死。
当地警官介绍道，事发当时枪手朝堪萨斯小镇的一所草坪用品制造公司开枪，目前造成至少3人死亡，20人受伤，有3名伤者处于“危急状态”。该枪手携带一柄AK-47步枪，现已被执法人员击毙。
报道称，枪击案发生在当地时间17时(美东时间18时)。警方当时已通知当地居民躲藏，附近的赫斯顿学院也已关闭。
据警方发言人卡里汤普森(Kari Thompson)表示，五名受害人在3个不同场所被发现，失踪的一辆丰田汉兰达汽车属于其中一名死者，警方经数小时后定位到此车正在堪萨斯城南部商业区内。
据悉，案发后，警方逐一询问周边居民寻求有利线索，但当地人均表示未察觉案发前有任何异常。卡里汤姆森表示这也使得破案变得困难。
(CNN)Multiple people were killed Thursday in a series of shootings that ended at Excel Industries in Hesston, Kansas, Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton told reporters.
The suspected shooter, an employee at Excel, was killed.
“There could be as many as three or four others (dead), and possibly up to 20 people that have been injured,” Walton said.
The sheriff told reporters that authorities first received a report of a man having been shot while driving. Second, a person was reported shot in the leg. Third, a report came in about a shooting in the parking lot of Excel. Finally, an active shooter was reported inside the workplace, Walton said.
The shooter was not identified.
Gov. Sam Brownback offered his condolences to the people of Hesston, which is 35 miles north of Wichita.
“This will take some time to worth through,” Walton said, citing the large number of crime scenes and people involved.
Excel Industries is a maker of lawn care products.
“This is just a horrible incident that’s happened here,” the sheriff said. “It’s going to be a lot of sad people before this is all over.”
CNN’s Keith Allen contributed to this report.
