The Latest: Workers first thought Kansas attack was gas fire

A man whose son was wounded in an attack at a Kansas factory says his son told him that when the shooting started, people were yelling "gas fire, gas fire."

Public records show that Ford has several previous offenses in Florida over the last decade, including burglary, grand theft and fleeing from an officer.

A sheriff says the police officer who shot and killed a gunman who was attacking the central Kansas factory where he worked is a "tremendous hero."

Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton said Friday that had the Hesston police officer not killed the man during the Thursday evening attack at the Excel Industries lawnmower parts plant, it "would be a whole lot more tragic."

Authorities say the attacker shot and wounded three people before storming into the factory, where he shot 15 others, killing three of them, before the officer killed him.

Pickett says the suspect shot two people while driving to the Excel Industries plant in Hesston where he worked and shot another person in the parking lot before going inside.