The 2008 Atlantis Plastics shooting was an incident of a mass shooting that took place at a Atlantis Plastics factory in Henderson, Kentucky, United States, on June 24, 2008 and lasted into the early hours of the next day.

That night at 10pm 25-year-old Wesley Neal Higdon shot and killed five people and critically injured a sixth person before committing suicide inside the factory.

[1] The shooting is the worst in the history of Henderson County, Kentucky, in terms of casualties, surpassing triple homicides occurring in 1799 and 1955.

[3][4][5] Subsequent reports indicate that Taylor had reprimanded Higdon twice before the shooting, once for talking on his cell phone too much and for not wearing safety glasses, then later for an altercation with co-worker Joshua Hinojosa at a convenience store across the street from the factory.

2 hours before the shooting Higdon had called his girlfriend and advised her was going to kill his boss at the factory according to police she didn’t warn anyone.