Police Brutality / Individual record
Cedric Ford
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Cedric Ford in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-02-25 in Hesston, KS. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-374
- Incident date
- February 25, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Hesston, KS
- Agency
- Harvey County Sheriff's Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 38
What happened
Cedric Larry Ford, 38, was killed by Harvey County sheriff's officers at Excel Industries in Hesston, Kansas, on February 25, 2016, after a shooting rampage. Authorities said Ford fired at motorists at several locations, then entered his workplace and shot colleagues, killing three people and wounding numerous others. Sheriff T. Walton and responding officers confronted Ford at the factory and killed him during an exchange of gunfire, ending the attack. The documented deaths and injuries to workers must be included when describing the police response; this was not a routine unarmed encounter. Investigators later examined possible motives and access to weapons, but Ford was never tried because he died at the scene.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1320
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- gun
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1136
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Additional source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Fatal Force v2 — fatal on-duty police shootings, 2015–2024The Washington Post · Dataset