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Wesley Neal HIGDON

This undated photo provided Wednesday, June 25, 2008 by the Henderson, Ky. Police Dept. shows Wesley Neal Higdon, 25. Police say the man who opened fire at a western Kentucky plastics plant warned his girlfriend two hours before his rampage that he would kill his boss. Higdon fatally shot five co-workers before turning the gun on himself early Wednesday.
(AP Photo/ Henderson, Ky. Police Dept)

Police tape in cordons off an area in front of the entrance to Atlantic Plastics Inc. Wednesday June 25, 2008 in Henderson, Ky. where an employee got into an
argument with a supervisor early Wednesday, then shot and killed four people
before killing himself, police said.
(AP Photo/ Daniel R. Patmore)

Henderson Chief of Police John C. Reed answers questions at a press conference Wednesday June 25, 2008 in Henderson, Ky. A 25-year-old press operator shot and killed five co-workers and himself at a plastics plant in rural western Kentucky just hours after arguing with his supervisor about not wearing safety goggles and using his cell phone while on the assembly line, police said Wednesday.
(AP Photo/ Daniel R. Patmore)

Dean Jorgensen, plant manager of Atlantis Plastics, hold back tears at press conference Wednesday June 25, 2008 in Henderson, Ky., about the shootings at the Atlantis Plastics plant where five employee were shot and killed with one in stable condition. The shooter Wesley Neal Higdon 25, took his own life.
(AP Photo/ Daniel R. Patmore)

Henderson, Ky. Chief of Police John C. Reed addresses the media Wednesday June 25, 2008 in Henderson, Ky. on the shooting at Atlantis Plastics where twenty-five-year-old Wesley Higdon of Henderson fatally shot five co-workers before turning the gun on himself early Wednesday.
(AP Photo/ Daniel R. Patmore)

A worker with American Enviro-Services cleans up an area surrounded by crime scene tape in front of the Atlantis Plastics plant in Henderson, Ky., where an employee shot and killed five people at the plant in Henderson before killing himself early Wednesday, June 25, 2008, according to Henderson Police Lt. David Piller.
(AP Photo/The Gleaner, Mike Lawrence)

Workers with American Enviro-Services clean up an area surrounded by crime scene tape in front of the Atlantis Plastics plant in Henderson, Ky., where an employee shot and killed five people at the plant in Henderson before killing himself early Wednesday, June 25, 2008.
(AP Photo / Evansville Courier & Press, Erin McCracken)

Rachael Vazques, 26, victim.

Atlantis Plastics employees comfort each other during a prayer vigil on the Henderson County, Ky., Courthouse lawn on Wednesday, June 25, 2008, hours after a co-worker killed five fellow workers and himself at the plant in Henderson, Ky. Attending the vigil are from left Kevin Lynn, Megan Viars and Tina Green who where all at work when Wesley Neal Higdon, 25, of Henderson, Ky went on a killing spree at the plant shortly after midnight.
Also pictured are Green' s son David Green, 10,second right and Viars' mother Rosie
Nally, far right.
(AP Photo / Evansville Courier & Press, Bob Gwaltney)

Clark Security guards Assistant Chief Steve Hatchett, 62 lower the flags to half staff at Gibbs Die Casting Wednesday June 25, 2008 in Henderson, Ky.. in respect of the Atlantis Plastic Inc. employees that were killed an employee shot five people to death before killing himself. Gibbs' is across the street from Atlantis Plastic in Henderson, Ky.
(AP Photo/ Daniel R. Patmore)

A gunman shot and killed four people at a factory in Kentucky early on Wednesday and then killed himself, according to local media. The Associated Press quoted police as saying the incident happened at a plastics factory in the western Kentucky town of Henderson.
(Graphics/Reuters)