SEYMOUR, Ind. (AP) — The Latest on apparent murder-suicide at a southern Indiana factory (all times local):
11:50 a.m.
Seymour Police Chief Bill Abbott says the two people fatally shot at a Cummins Inc. plant in southern Indiana both were men.
Abbott said Thursday at a news conference the bodies were found on the second floor of a new technical and office center near the company's Seymour Engine Plant.
He declined to comment on the men's relationship. State Police say it appeared to be a murder-suicide.
Abbott says two to four shots were reported about 8:45 a.m. at the site about 60 miles south of Indianapolis.
Cummins worker Jan Poole tells WDRB-TV he heard a noise so loud that his desk shook and he thought the ceiling might be falling.
Poole says "it wasn't until I was halfway out the door that someone said there was a shooting."
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11 a.m.
Indiana's governor is calling the apparent murder-suicide at a Seymour factory a senseless act of violence.
State police say one person was fatally shot Thursday morning at a Cummins Inc. engine factory and that the assailant then died by suicide. Police haven't yet released their identities or the circumstances of their deaths.
Gov. Mike Pence says in a statement that "our hearts go out to the family of the victim" and commended police for a swift response to the shooting.
The Cummins Seymour Engine Plant is about 60 miles south of Indianapolis and has several hundred employees.
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10:25 a.m.
State police say two people are dead in an apparent murder-suicide at a Cummins Inc. engine factory in southern Indiana.
Sgt. Stephen Wheeles says preliminary reports are that one person was shot dead Thursday morning at the Cummins plant in Seymour and that the assailant then died by suicide.
Police have yet to release their identities or the circumstances of their deaths. The (Seymour) Tribune reports police were called about 8:40 a.m.
Cummins spokesman Jon Mills says the company's facilities in Seymour and Columbus are on lockdown while the attack is investigated. The newspaper says workers have been escorted from the building.
The Cummins Seymour Engine Plant, about 60 miles south of Indianapolis, has several hundred employees. The Columbus-based company makes generators and engines used in trucking, farming and construction equipment.
