A fired employee who had been trying to convert co-workers to Islam stabbed two female colleagues - beheading one of them - before an off-duty officer shot him, police have said. Alton Alexander Nolen, who converted to Islam during a recent stint in prison, was fired from Vaughan Foods, a food processing plant in Moore, Oklahoma, on Thursday before returning to his SUV and smashing it into another vehicle. The 30-year-old then climbed out and entered the building, attacking the first two people he saw with a knife he had used at the plant, Moore Police Sergeant Jeremy Lewis said.
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Alton Nolen, 30, had just been fired when he drove up to Vaughan Foods in Moore, Oklahoma and 'attacked the first two people he saw'
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He beheaded Colleen Hufford, 54, and stabbed Traci Johnson, 43, before Mark Vaughan, an off-duty officer and the company's former owner, shot him
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Nolen and Johnson are both being treated in hospital
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Co-workers revealed that Nolen, who has an extensive rap sheet, had recently converted to Islam and had tried to get them to convert as well
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He has a Jesus tattoo on his chest and a Muslim greeting inked on his abdomen, court records show
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In 2010, after he eluded cops and sparked a massive overnight manhunt, he was ordered to take an anger management course
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911 call reveals the chaos inside the entrance to the building after the suspect entered and attacked at random before he was gunned down
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FBI now investigating whether conversion to Islam linked to attack
Heroic: @placeholder, pictured above, shot the suspect multiple times to put an end to his killing spree.