Cops Confirm Multiple Fatalities After Walmart Shooting in Virginia

A mass taking pictures at a Walmart in Virginia on Tuesday night time has left a number of fatalities and accidents, police mentioned.

The Chesapeake Police Division confirmed the incident to The Each day Beast on the Walmart retailer, off Battlefield Boulevard.

In a press convention, Chesapeake public data officer Leo Kosinski mentioned the decision to authorities got here in at 10:12 p.m. Police responded in “energetic shooter vogue.”

“We go inside and to make an extended story brief, over the course of the subsequent 30-45 minutes we have been capable of finding a number of fatalities and a number of injured events,” Kosinski mentioned.

Police mentioned the shooter acted alone and is believed to be among the many useless.

One individual was discovered useless exterior the constructing whereas the remainder of the our bodies have been inside. “Officers are nonetheless on scene proper now combing by means of the constructing to make certain” that there was just one shooter, cops mentioned.

The taking pictures was over when cops arrived, with police firing not a single bullet. Police wouldn’t establish whether or not the victims or the shooter have been workers.

A person who recognized himself as a retailer employee on the Walmart, Kevin Harper, posted a Fb Reside on Tuesday night time after the taking pictures. He was seen standing exterior the shop as police automobiles swarmed round it.

“It’s wild, although, it was the supervisor, one of many managers,” he mentioned as sirens could possibly be heard blaring behind him. Police wouldn’t verify that element on the time.

“I seen brains,” one girl could possibly be heard crying within the background of the video as he requested if she was all proper.

“What the hell was going by means of his thoughts?”

Virginia state Sen. Louise Lucas mentioned in an announcement: “I’m completely heartbroken that America’s newest mass taking pictures happened in a Walmart in my district in Chesapeake, Virginia tonight. I can’t relaxation till we discover the options to finish this gun violence epidemic in our nation that has taken so many lives.”

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