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People are running out of the factory. One of the
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employees is on the phone with emergency dispatch. While he
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talks to the operator, he motions towards the exit, yelling
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to the others to get out of the building. Now
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the double doors flap open and shut with each escape.
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Workers spill into the parking lot and clusters running stumbling.
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People are crying, their heads on a swivel as they
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run away. Screams echo from inside. Alarms sound as the
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whole facility goes into lockdown, but most workers still have
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no idea what's going on. Then more fragments of information arrive.
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Someone runs out yelling for help. It's hard to make out,
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but a few people hear that someone is cutting colleen.
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For a second, nobody seems to know what to do.
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Some move further away from the factory, Others move towards it,
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listening for more details on the street. There are still
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no sirens or police. More shouting carries from the open doorway,
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people strained to make out the words everyone inside is
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too frantic. Another loud scream, and then gunshots. Welcome to
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Sword and Scale Nightmares, True Crime for bedtime or Nightmare Beginnings.
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Now it's the morning of September twenty fifth, twenty fourteen,
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and Von Foods in Moore, Oklahoma, is moving through another
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ordinary shift.
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Inside the factory is cold, bright and industrial. Food swirls
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around in giants standing mixers while workers and assembly lines
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chop up ingredients for potato salad, desserts, and snacks. Everyone
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is focused on what's right in front of them, just
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trying to get through the day without falling behind. On
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one of these lines, workers are standing shoulder to shoulder
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preparing brishetta. Hmm, sounds delicious. Forty three year old Tracy
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Johnson is new She's only been here for four days,
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so she's paying close attention to how things are done,
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hoping to avoid mistakes and blend in with the veteran employees.
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But as the day goes on, she keeps noticing the
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coworker beside her. He's not doing things quite right. He
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keeps taking pauses and cutting corners. Tracy can't stand people
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who won't work hard. I know the feeling, and she
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starts to suspect this guy's just lazy, so she leans
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over and tells him he should be stirring the mixture better.
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In a factory this big that kind of correction isn't unusual.
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People are constantly telling each other to move faster, to
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do more, this, redo that. But for whatever reason, Tracy
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doesn't stop with the first comment. Maybe she gets the
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sense that it hasn't filtered through the machinery of this
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guy's brain. She tells the guy, a man named Alton Nolan,
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that he needs to really put his back into it.
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Alton starts to get defensive. It's clear he doesn't want
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any feedback. He tells her the Burshetta doesn't need to
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be stirred again and that she needs to watch her tone.
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He's a thirty year old man, he says, he's not
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one of Tracy's kids. By now, the tension has spread
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beyond the Burushetta. Workers on the other lines have started
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paying attention, but Tracy presses further. Man up. She says,
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you're nothing but a lazy, immature brat. Alton laughs, his
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face tight with restrained anger. Ten minutes later, he hears
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Tracy say to a black woman on the line that
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quote he got Caucasians fucked up. What he says next
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depends a little on who's telling it, But according to Tracy,
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Alton says I hate white people. I beat white people up, which,
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on its face, you know, sounds ridiculous, but it is
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twenty twenty six and language like that is prevalent everywhere anyway.
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That's enough for Tracy. She storms off to the office
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to report him to a supervisor. In tears, she explains
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what just happened. Now the argument is no longer contained
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to the factory floor. Management gets involved. Tracy writes out
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a statement. Witnesses are asked for their side of the story,
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and Alton has to write a statement as well. After
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finishing his version of events, Alton tries to go back
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to work, but the supervisor stops him and directs him
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towards HR. He grumbles in the hallway, muttering about Tracy
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and her insults towards his manhood or something. He already
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seems to know where this is going. It's obvious by
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now it is nearly four in the afternoon. HR decides
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Alton should be suspended and security escorts him out of
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the building. Alton drives home and that should be the
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end of it, but of course it isn't. Hardly fifteen
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minutes go by before his suv is back in the
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Von Foods parking lot. He isn't supposed to be there anymore.
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The day is moving toward a close. People are finishing
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up their work, some are changing clothes in the locker
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rooms getting ready to head home, and the administrative area
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paperwork is still being shuffled and end of day meetings
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are wrapping up. Nothing in the atmosphere suggests that danger
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has entered the building, but danger is already making its
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way towards the administrative offices, and he has a knife
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hidden in his boot. Thirty year old Alton Nolan has
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been suspended from his job at Von Foots after making
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racist remarks on the shed a assembly line. That's a
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sentence you don't hear every day. His day should be
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over by now, but it's not. It's not. Instead of
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going home and trying to look for a new job,
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maybe working on his attitude a little bit and his
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overt racism, Allegedly, he drives home to grab a butcher
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knife before speeding back over to the factory. Alton rips
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into the parking lot, coming to a stop only after
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smashing into another car. The impact is sudden and jarring,
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but still not enough to alert everyone inside the building
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of what's to come. The driver's side door flies open,
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and Alton heads straight for the factory's entrance. He's not
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allowed back in. Security already escorted him out once, but
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as another employee is leaving, Nolan slips past through the
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open door. Inside, nobody is expecting him. The day shift
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is in its home stretch, and the administrative workers are
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finishing up their paperwork in water cooler conversations, and in
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one of those offices, a woman named Colleen Hufford is
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talking with Gary, the customer service manager, about a purchase order.
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It's a routine, boring meeting. Gary is looking down at
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the paperwork in front of him when something shifts at
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the right of his vision. He looks up. Alton Nolan
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is standing behind Colleen. With no warning at all, Gary
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sees the glimmer of a metal blade. As Alton brings
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the knife around to the front of Colleen's neck. In
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one swift movement, he lurches her head back against his body,
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exposing her throat. Then he rips the knife sideways. The
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wound is deep. Gary, jolted from his disbelief, jumps up
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from his chair and lunges towards him, trying to pull
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Alton off of her, but everything is happening so fast,
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too fast. Colleen is bleeding profusely, but Nolan isn't finished.
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He spins her around and shoves her out of the
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office into an open area where more people can see
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what's going on. When she falls onto her back, Alton
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straddles her and gets right back to sawing away at
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her neck. Gary is screaming to get someone's attention, someone
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who can help. He's cursing, grabbing at Alton and trying
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to drag him off Colleen. But Alton is like a
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bag of bricks, immovable in his rage. Nothing breaks his focus.
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He just keeps going. The intensifying sound of chaos is
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starting to draw a crowd. The first person to come
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running is another employee, Sam. He doesn't stop to take
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in the whole scene. He sees enough. Alton is on
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top of Colleen, still cutting at her neck, and Gary
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is screaming trying to pull him off. Sam rushes in
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straight at Alton, body slamming him, then grabs and pulls,
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but it doesn't work. Alton barely seems to register the
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counter attacks. He doesn't turn around or back off. He
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just continues his task with the diligence that he should
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have applied to his factory work. If he had, none
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of this would have ever happened. Sam is forced into
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a split second decision. Throwing himself at the guy isn't helping,
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so he backs off, starts yelling for more help, and
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calls nine to one one. At the same time, he
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directs everyone to leave the building. Now the panic is
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spreading outside the building. Two more employees hear the screaming.
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They hear someone calling for help, saying that someone is
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cutting Colleen, so both men run back inside. They take
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in the scene all at once. Coulleen is on the floor,
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Gary is still trying to get this guy off of her,
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and Alton still straddling her with a knife in his hand.
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There's not much time to strategize. One of the men
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charges and kicks Alton under the chin as hard as
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he can. He's wearing steel toed boots and it's a
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brutal hit. Alton looks stunned for a second, and it
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almost looks like this is the end. But Alton regains
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his awareness and starts slashing the air with his knife,
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warning everyone to stay away, and the circle widens. Someone
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grabs a chair and puts some distance between himself and Alton,
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and others try throwing chairs, but nothing seems to be working.
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Then another guy makes an attempt. He charges towards Alton,
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grabs his wrist and shoves him up against the doorway,
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trying to pin his arm and get control of the knife.
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For a second, it seems possible they're locked together in
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a desperate struggle as he uses the doorway to trap
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Alton so he can't get back to Colleen, but Alton
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overpowers him and heads right back to Colleen. Gary is
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still shouting, Sam is still on the phone with nine
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one one, trying to describe something so chaotic and horrific
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it barely sounds real at all. Around them, the administrative
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area has become a trap of panic and failed rescue attempts.
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People rush in, recoil, rush in again. No one can
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get enough control over Alton to make him stop. At
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some point during the chaos, Gary manages to make another
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quick call to dispatch, but even while he's on the phone,
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the attack is still happening right in front of him,
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and then he finishes. People scream in terror all around him,
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and others back away because they can't get close enough
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without getting cut themselves. But at some point during the frenzy,
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Alton fully detaches Colleen Hufford's head from her body. Gary's
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eyes widen, tears, clouding his vision. Everyone in the room
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thinks they're next, and now Alton is coming straight towards him.
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But something distracts Alton, and it makes a sharp turn,
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leaving the room. As Gary watches Alton leave, something clicks.
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This was not about Colleen. She was just the first
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person he found when he came back into the building.
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She was the first body between him and the anger
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that had been building since earlier that morning, maybe years
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earlier in his life. Who knows, But the woman who'd
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embarrassed him and reported him, who got him sent upstairs
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to HR is Tracy Johnson, not Colleen. Tracy just changed
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out of her work clothes and is getting ready to
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leave for the day. The argument on the Brius Sheette
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line has already left her mind. She handles it the
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way she was supposed to. She reported the threat, and
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the threat was escorted from the building. She gathers her
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things from her locker, throwing her keys and her purse
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before shutting the metal Cubby door and heading for the exit.
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Her hand grips the cold metal door handle and she
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pulls it open. Turning to head down the hallway and
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out of the building, she sees him. Alton is heading
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her direction with a bloody knife in his hand. She freezes,
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and for one stunted second, her body just stops working,
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as if her brain can't make sense of what her
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eyes are seeing. And now he's looking right at her.
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For Alton, the day has come full circle. For Tracy,
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the nightmare is just beginning. Vane Foods has collapsed into panic.
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People are running, others are screaming for help. Somewhere behind them,
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Colleen Hufford's lifeless body has been separated from her head.
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The man responsible, her coworker, Alton Nolan, is on the move.
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His true target is leaving the locker room, and she
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locks eyes with him in the hallway. She looks down
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at the knife in his hand. She doesn't know what
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to do yet, but he's carrying the bloody evidence of
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what he's just done. Before Tracy Johnson even makes sense
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of what's happening, Alton charges towards her. He closes the
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distance fast and slams Tracy up against the wall, pinning
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her so she can't move. Using his forearm to keep
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her hands out of the way, he tries to expose
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her bare neck is blade, moving closer to her skin
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by the second. With her arms secured, he starts slicing.
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Tracy fights back as best she can, but she's smaller
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than he is. She screams for help, trying desperately to
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keep herself alive in the narrow hallway with nowhere to run.
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She feels the warm, wet sensation spreading down her chest,
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and she's getting dizzy. Everything happens in slow motion at
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the end, as the last coherent thought crosses her mind,
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this is how I die. Elsewhere, a fellow employee is
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unknowingly walking towards the bloody scene. As he turns down
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the hallway, he quickly realizes what's happening. Jumping into action,
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he grabs a nearby roll of product labels and hurls
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it at Alton, aiming right for his head, but he misses.
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Now Alton is headed his way, charging at him with
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the knife. Time is running out, Tracy is losing a
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lot of blood, and Alton turns on anyone who tries
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to intervene. This building full of unarmed factory workers is
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no match for Alton's rage, but not everyone is unarmed.
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Unbeknownst to most of the staff at Von Foods, the
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company's chief operating officer, a guy named Mark Vaughn, is
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a reserved deputy for the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Department. As
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soon as Mark is made aware of the situation, he
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sprints out of his truck and grabs his AR fifteen.
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He runs back into the hallway, plants his feet firmly,
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and yells stop. Alton does stop for a moment. He
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looks up at Mark, takes a few steps towards him,
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but then turns right back towards Tracy. Mark takes the
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opportunity to run ten feet closer, but Alton spins around again.
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Mark can see that he only went back to get
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his weapon. Now Alton is charging towards him, the butcher
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knife clutched in his fist. Again, Mark Bellow's stop. Alton
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picks up the pace. Now he's only about fifteen feet away.
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Mark yell's one more time, giving Alton one final warning
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before squeezing the trigger and unloading three rounds. The shots
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are in rapid succession and They push Alton up against
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the wall, Clutching his stomach with one hand and the
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knife with the other, he slides down into a seated position.
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He's still alive.
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Now.
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The authorities are here, spilling into the building, cops armed
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with weapons and ems with their life saving equipment, but
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not everyone can be saved. Alton is conscious, but he
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needs to go to the hospital. Police don't hesitate to
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cuff him to his stretcher. Fifty four year old Colleen
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Hufford is far beyond help. She was what everyone called
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the mom of the office, and those that saw her
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in her final moments won't ever be able to wash
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that image from their minds. Tracy is still bleeding out
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in a heap on the floor. She's alive, but barely.
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The cuts are bad enough that she'll need emergency surgery
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to repair her jugular vein. At the hospital, Alton Nolan
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is awake and eager to talk to police and the FBI. Immediately,
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they ask him if he regrets what he's done. Aalton answers,
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as if he's been waiting for someone to ask. No
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is the answer. He doesn't regret any of it. He
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goes on to explain that he's a Muslim, and that
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he felt oppressed by everyone at work. Imagine that specifically
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by Tracy. More importantly, he explains that his interpretation of
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the Koran dictates that he had to kill the women.
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Imagine that Holy book telling you to kill people. It
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explains that Colleen was a slave to the devil, while
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he himself was a slave to Allah, and he adds
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that he'd have beheaded Tracy two if he hadn't been stopped.
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When people tell you who they are, you should probably
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pay attention and believe them. No one had introduced him
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to Islam. He discovered it on his own, converted, and
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gave himself a new name on Facebook, Jaquim Israel. Sounds
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lovely and what a great place Facebook is to reinvent yourself.
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You can really do a lot of great things there
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for society. Investigators also learned that on that very same
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Facebook account, Alton's been reposting graphic videos of beheadings for
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a while now. Weird how the moderation team over at
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Facebook hasn't done anything about it. I mean, they've only
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banned me three times, and I never post beheading videos.
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Weird given what he's saying and what he's just done.
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The FBI has to determine whether this attack was connected
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to terrorism.
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You know, the.
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Muslim is somebody who submits their will to Allah. He explains,
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whatever he wants done, that's what we do, kind of
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like an MPC. Then he adds, and you know, he
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wants us to get the oppressors out of this place.
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Oppressors did he mean employers again? He says that he
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doesn't regret what he did because it would only make
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Von Foods a quote better place for Muslims to work
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in the future, which is, you know, a solid reason
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to throw away your life and kill someone. As it
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turns out, Alton has no ties to terrorist groups. He's
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doing what the kids call these days, what is it LARPing?
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Pretending to be something you're not. According to prosecutors, he's
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just an angry black man who used religion as an
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excuse to hurt anyone he felt was oppressing him, like Tracy,
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who just wanted to stir the brushette a little better
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anyone who was oppressing him. Doesn't that sound I don't
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know familiar. I keep saying that, but nobody answers back.
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His lawyers would later argue insanity, but the jury rejects it.
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Nolan is convicted of murder and multiple assaults, sentenced to death,
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and the courts go on to uphold both the verdict
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and the finding that he was competent to stand trial.
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His appeals continue because our system keeps giving you chances
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no matter what. But the facts of the day do
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not change. Once you strip away the religion and the
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language to make himself feel and sound like something larger
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than he was, what remains is a much smaller, much
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uglier thing. A mortal man who was corrected at work,
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felt humiliated, went home for a butcher knife, and came
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back to kill because he got hurt right in the fields.
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A little bitch who had no control of his own
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actions because his feelings took over a pussy. Basically, whatever
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meaning Alton Nolan may have tried to assign to what
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he did, there was nothing noble or holy about it,
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just rage, grievance, and the willingness to turn both into bloodshed.
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