Suspect to face questions over worker’s beheading

Alton Nolen stands accused of beheading a woman employee, and stabbing another. Picture: AP

A MAN who was shot after authorities say he beheaded one woman and attacked another at an Oklahoma food processing plant from which he had just been fired has regained consciousness and been interviewed by detectives

Alton Nolen, 30, remains hospitalised in stable condition after Thursday’s attack at the Vaughan Foods plant in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, police sergeant Jeremy Lewis said. He said that Nolen will be charged today with first-degree murder and assault and battery with a deadly weapon and that he may also face federal charges.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for an Oklahoma City Islamic group said that Nolen was a frequent worshipper at a mosque and that he remembers the suspect as “a little weird.”