What the records say
- When
- 2008
- Kind
- Shooting
- Coordinates
- 37.80° N, 87.64° W
- Description
- 2008 mass murder in Henderson, Kentucky, US
- Injured
- 1
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
2008 Atlantis Plastics shooting
2008 mass shooting in Kentucky, U.S.
In the early morning of June 25, 2008, a mass shooting took place at the Atlantis Plastics factory in Henderson, Kentucky, United States. Wesley Neal Higdon, a 25-year-old employee at the factory, shot and killed five people and critically injured a sixth person before committing suicide.
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