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.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
From the article it reads like everyone they interviewed speaks “urban”.
This neighborhood isn’t bad . It’s about 15 minutes from my house. Huge shopping district about 5-6 blocks with just about every chain store in America , lots of restaurants, surrounding neighborhoods are average homes and apartments.
I’m so glad that Walmart has this policy in place to prevent gun violence in their stores.
Thanks for the report.
They should have posted the policy in a larger font and in more places, especially in the employee breakroom.
Geee. And they say Musk is tough on employees!
Another gun free zone?
Charlottesville and Chesapeake are only a couple hundred miles apart.
Cannot help but wonder if Chesapeake was a copy cat mass killing.
The political narrative has gone wildly wrong for the Democratic Party in the last week.
Both Virginia shooters were Black, and the Idaho mass killer used a knife.
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Re: Political narrative
Completely forgot to mention that the Colorado gay nightclub shooter self-identifies as “binary!”
Another obama son. When are we going to wake up to realize diversity is death?
Diversity
Inclusion
Equity
That would be “non-binary”
The country is suffering from a lack of God.
No hate’ or anything here. This is just another ‘random’ shooting.
Of course he loved them so much he shot them.
Nothing good ever happens in a Wal-Mart.
Daytime traffic is horrible there .
As far as the clientele, I’ve never been in that store, but, hey, it’s Tidewater .
Fwiw, I used to work at the overnight at the Grassfield store many years ago. Too rural for ghetto, just white punks on dope, they’d shoplift beer all the time.
Chesapeake Walmart mass shooting: 7 dead, including the shooter
Yep, sadly there’s a lot of drugs in Chesapeake, including heroin and in respectable neighborhoods.
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