Fired Employee Beheads Coworker at Oklahoma Plant, Police Say

OKLAHOMA CITY — A man fired from an Oklahoma food processing plant beheaded a woman with a knife and was attacking another worker when he was shot and wounded by a company official, police said Friday.

Moore Police Sgt. Jeremy Lewis says police are waiting until the 30-year-old man is conscious to arrest him in Thursday's attack and have asked the FBI to help investigate after co-workers at Vaughan Foods told authorities that he recently started trying to convert several employees to Islam.

Lewis identified the man as Alton Nolen.

Nolen stabbed Colleen Hufford, 54, severing her head, Lewis said. Read more...

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