Posted on 11/22/2022 11:05:55 PM PST by Morgana
Up to 10 people have been killed at a Walmart store in Chesapeake, Virginia, after a gunman - believed to be a manager - opened fire inside just days before Thanksgiving.
According to those at the scene, one of the managers entered the break room and started shooting at those inside the Sam's Circle Walmart, located just off Battlefield Boulevard, at around 10.10pm on Tuesday night.
Police said the gunman is dead and that they found multiple people both injured and dead when they arrived at the scene. One person was discovered dead outside beside the store's entrance.
The exact number of victims is not yet clear, but a Chesapeake Police Department spokesperson said that no more than 10 people have died in the mass shooting. All injured have been transported to hospitals in the area.
Five patients were being treated for injuries at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, the area's top trauma center, a spokesperson confirmed.
There are also a number of people believed to be seriously hurt as over 40 emergency service vehicles swooped to the Walmart supercenter on Tuesday night.
One Walmart employee, standing outside the store after the horrific attack, revealed on social media: 'It was the manager. One of the managers.'
Referring to the gunman, the shaken staff member added: 'He blew his brains out and everything. He killed the girl in there and everything. He came in and started spraying. I'm sorry for the victims.
'I just left the break room, the manager come in there and started capping people up in there, started shooting. Sadly we lost a few of our associates.'
'It was a traumatic experience,' he told DailyMail.com.
Another Walmart employee who showed up for their nightshift shortly after the shooting told reporters at the scene: 'Thank goodness I showed up late.'
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Prayers for the victims and their families.
This is terrible. People just go to work and end up getting killed by yet another mental case.
Prayers up for all affected by this horrible event. 🙏
Was he targetting certain workers?
That is unknown but I figure in a few days we will know
shooter is black...this story will disappear quick now....
shooter is black...this story will disappear quick now....
Oh my, what is MSNBC going to do, after this tragedy, they lost their narrative.
I wonder if the victims were all whites?
He was a team lead—not really a manager, though they’re referred to as members of management. A team lead is a lowest rung supervisor.
The dude in the facebook live (in the title of this story) is black. There is a large black population in this area too.
Walmart has a policy against employees possessing firearms, by the way.
Do you mean owning them or bringing them into the workplace?
Maybe this is why.
Against bringing them into the workplace.
There are 4,720 Walmart stores in the United States, most of them with 200 or more employees. So Walmart is not the new postal. Among that many employees, strange things will happen, especially around rougher neighborhoods.
“Walmart is the new “postal”.”
Excellent observation.
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