BA second gun attack in the United States in a few days has killed several people at a Walmart supermarket in Virginia. “Several fatalities” and “several injuries” were found, a spokesman for the Chesapeake police said to journalists on site.
“We are assuming a lone perpetrator and that this lone perpetrator is dead,” the spokesman added, without addressing the circumstances of the death. He said the officers were not known to have been shot. According to the current state of knowledge, the officers did not use their firearms.
The police, who arrived at the scene shortly after 10 p.m. local time on Tuesday evening, could not yet put an exact number on the dead. But she assumes that there are “less than ten” people. A gunman shot people in the supermarket on Tuesday evening – two days before America’s most important family holiday, Thanksgiving.
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It is a very big business, the search for other victims or people who may have been hiding is still ongoing. Nothing was initially known about the background.
It is not yet clear whether some of those killed or the attacker himself belonged to the supermarket staff. According to CNN, citing information from an officer at the scene, there is reason to believe the shooter was an employee or former employee at the Walmart supermarket. He is said to have opened fire on other employees in a break room.
Police believe the gun attack took place at the supercenter itself. However, a dead person was found outside the supermarket.
Walmart said in an initial response, “We are shocked by the tragic incident at our Chesapeake, Virginia facility. We pray for those affected.”
Last weekend, five people were killed and 18 others injured in a shooting at a nightclub popular with gay, lesbian and transgender people in Colorado.
