A Georgia Food Service manufacturing plant is on lockdown after a gunman shot an employee.
FoxNews reports that the suspect allegedly walked into the Dart Container Corp. facility at 7 a.m. and started shooting, according to the spokesman for the food service manufacturer, which employs roughly 300 at the plant.
Rockdale County Sheriff’s spokesman Deputy Lee Thomas said the man injured in the shooting was taken to the hospital, although he didn’t know the extent of the injury. Police are currently looking for the man who fired the shots and has since left the plant, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Video from the area shows heavily armed police monitoring the area as the lights from police cruisers flashed around the industrial plant. Schools in the area were placed on lockdown as a precaution…
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