There is a city in Virginia calledChesapeake. A Walmart manager opened fire on fellow employees in the break room of a Virginia store, killing six people, police and a witness said Wednesday.
The man who shot himself was dead when police arrived. There was no clear reason for the shooting.
A shopper told a local TV station that the store was busy just prior to the attack.
Workers usually gather in the break room before their shifts, according to Briana Tyler.
She told ABC that her manager opened the door and started shooting.
She said that he didn't say anything.
Solesky confirmed that the shooter was a Walmart employee but didn't give his name because his family hadn't been told. The police chief didn't know if the victims were employees or not.
The employee told WAVY that the shooter pointed his gun at her and told her to leave.
It didn't look real until you felt it. I couldn't hear it initially because it was so loud.
The second largest city in Virginia is located next to the seaside communities of Norfolk and Virginia Beach.
Youngkin wrote that their hearts broke with the community. There are no places for heinous acts of violence.
It was the second shooting in less than a week in Virginia. Three University of Virginia football players were killed on a charter bus as they returned to campus from a field trip. The two wounded students are students.
The mayor said in a statement that he was devastated by the act of violence. "Chesapeake is a tight-knit community, and we are all shocked by this news."
This year has been particularly violent in the database run by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University.
There have been 40 mass killings in the U.S. so far in 2022. The killer is not included in the definition of a mass killing.
A person opened fire at a gay nightclub in Colorado, killing five people and wounding 17. The country was shocked by the deaths of 21 people at an elementary school in Texas.
A Walmart in El Paso, Texas, was the scene of a shooting that killed 22 people in February.
The call about the shooting came in at 10PM. Solesky didn't know how many shoppers were in the building or whether a security guard was present.
When the shots were fired, Joetta received text messages from her mother. Her mother wasn't hurt.
Jeffery was crying and shaking. I was talking to her about buying turkeys for Thanksgiving.
One man was seen wailing at a hospital after learning that his brother was dead, and others shrieked as they left a conference center set up as a family reunification center.
She went to the conference center to get information about her former co-workers.
Buggs said, "You always say you don't think it would happen in your town, in your neighborhood, in your store, and that's the thing that has me surprised."
Walmart said it was shocked by the event.
In the aftermath of the El Paso shooting, Walmart asked customers not to carry firearms in its stores and stopped selling certain types of bullets.
It stopped selling handgun and short-barrel rifle bullets. In Alaska, Walmart stopped selling handguns.
In the mid 1990s, the company stopped selling handguns in all but one state. The latest move made it possible for it to focus on hunting rifles and related items.
Walmart has many stores in rural areas where hunters rely on it to get their gear.
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