WEST POINT, Ga. (AP) – A shooting inside the Kia Motors auto manufacturing plant in Georgia left one person wounded and another in custody after armed officers swarmed the site Tuesday.
Authorities and the automaker released few details in the hours following the shooting at the massive plant on 2,200 acres near the Georgia-Alabama state line.
The shooting victim was flown by helicopter to a hospital in nearby Columbus, said Sgt. Stewart Smith of the Troup County Sheriff’s Office. He said a lone suspect had been arrested.
“The plant was evacuated and sealed and it has been cleared,” said Smith, who added no one else had been found injured.
Kia opened its first U.S. manufacturing plant in West Point, about 80 miles southwest of Atlanta, in 2009. Within about four years the plant employed 3,000 workers and had produced more than 1 million vehicles.