SEVERAL SHOT DEAD at CALIFORNIA Food Plant

FRESNO, CALIF. Fresno cops have confirmed that a number of people are dead and others are shot and recovering following a workplace rampage at a Apple Valley Farms, a food processing plant in Central Fresno.

Officers are on the scene.

Streets in the area are closed off.

No other details were immediately available.

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9:25 a.m.: Dan Lynch, Fresno County’s emergency medical services director, said four people have been taken to local hospitals from the shooting scene.

8:50 a.m. Fresno police are on the scene of a workplace shooting in central Fresno.

At least three people have been shot at the Apple Valley Farms plant on Hedges Avenue. The plant is in an industrial area near the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad tracks, just north of Olive Avenue and just east of Blackstone Avenue.

Initial reports are that the gunman killed himself nearby.

No other information is immediately available. Check here later for more on this developing story.

Witness account: Roger Medina said he had just walked into a nearby McDonald’s when a man dressed in a meat cutter vest walked in. Medina thought it odd because Halloween is over.

“He said, ‘There’s a guy shooting people over there,’ ” Medina said.

Medina said he later saw the apparent gunman lying on Hedges Avenue, and a police officer told him the man was dead.

Witness account: Jesus Davila said he was at a bus stop on Olive Avenue when someone from a nearby meat factory ran up and said a gunman was shooting people inside.

Then Davila heard a loud gunshot.

“I thought I had been shot,” Davila said.

Then he saw the apparent gunman.

Davila said the meat factory worker told him that the gunman had just got out of jail.

“He said the guy was in nine years and he was crazy,” Davila said.