One person has been shot de@d with five others injured after a mass sho0ting at an Ohio manufacturing warehouse.
New Albany Police responded to an active sho0ter at KDC/One on the 8800 block of Smith Mill Road North just before 11pm late Tuesday night.
Cops confirmed one person was k!lled and a further five were rushed to local hospitals in the ‘targeted type of attack’.
The suspect has been identified and is still at large but no longer in the area, according to police.
In an update posted by the NAPD at 1.26am, police said they had finished evacuating employees from the building.
At least 20 people were taken from one building at the scene to another.
Residents are instructed to ‘avoid the area’ as cops hunt the suspect. An investigation is underway at the scene.
Police urge anyone who can assist in the investigation to call NAPD at 614-855-1234.
The KDC/One facility manufactures cosmetics for LBrands stores, according to the New Albany Chamber of Commerce website.
The site is just one of 24 manufacturers located in the New Albany Beauty Park and has produced over 1.5 billion units in over 3,000 different SKUs since its opening in 2012.
This incident comes less than 24 hours after one person was shot dead in Hamilton – 118 miles from New Albany – during the early hours of Tuesday, The Independent reported.
Hamilton police said they were alerted of shots being fired on Clovernook Drive at around 5:45 am.
The shooting took place following an ‘altercation’ between two people that ended with one person being killed, police added.