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PlusSurveillance Video: Deadly Ky. Plant ShootingSurveillance Video: Deadly Ky. Plant ShootingThe Associated PressNewly released surveillance videos provide a graphic glimpse of a shooting at a western Kentucky plastics plant that left five people and the gunman dead. Police in Henderson released the videos to The Associated Press on Tuesday. (July 15)When a gunman opened fire at this Kentucky plastics plant —- he killed five people before taking his own life….Now — weeks after the incident—police have released this surveillance video that documents several horrifying minutes inside the factory. Police say this is the shooter —- 25-year-old Wesley Higdon. [Notes:zoom into security camera image of higdon] Video from the plant lunchroom shows Higdon aiming at a man sitting at a table, who falls from his chair after being shot. Another camera —-on the factory floor shows a worker falling to the ground –apparently hit…Higdon runs out of view.Investigators believe Wesley Higdon called his girlfriend from the plant about two hours before he went on a shooting rampage——- and told her he *was* going to kill his supervisor. Higdon, had been previously scolded for talking on his cell phone— and failing to wear safety glasses.Atlantics Plastics employs about 150 people —- the company’s CEO has called this incident —a total shock.