US Walmart store shooting: Several people are feared dead after a gunman opened fire at a Walmart store in a United States supermarket in Virginia, officials said. “Chesapeake Police confirm active shooter incident with fatality at Sam Circle Walmart.” According to reports, the gunman was shot dead.
Multiple people are dead after a gunman opened fire at a Walmart in Virginia, police say Multiple people were killed after a gunman opened fire Tuesday night at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, a police official said. It is not clear how many people were killed or injured, but police believe the gunman was killed.
We believe it was a single shooter, and that single shooter is deceased at this time,” police spokesman Officer Leo Kosinski told reporters. The shooting at the Walmart Supercenter was reported to police just after 10 p.m., Kosinski said.
Police believe the shots were fired inside the Walmart. He said one person was found dead outside the shop. Centara Norfolk General Hospital is treating five victims, a spokeswoman for the health care system said, but their conditions were not released.
Kosinski told reporters he did not know how the gunman died. He said he does not believe the gunman was shot by police. It is not clear whether the dead or the gunmen were employees. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Washington said it was responding to the shooting. Police in Chesapeake, Virginia are responding to a shooting at a Walmart with multiple fatalities and injuries, Chesapeake Police Public Information Officer Leo Kosinski told CNN. Officers responded to the store around 10:12 p.m. Tuesday and found evidence of a shooting inside, Kosinski told CNN.
Officers entered the store and discovered multiple people dead and injured, Kosinski said. Kosinski said details on exactly how many people were killed or injured would not be available until late Wednesday as investigators were still sweeping stores overnight to look for additional victims or people who may have been hiding. Earlier, he said police believed the death toll was “less than ten”.
“We’re only a few hours from the initial incident, so everything is very fluid, very new right now,” Kosinski said. The gunman is believed to be among the dead, Kosinski said, adding that it is not believed that any law enforcement officers fired shots during the response. Chesapeake City officials have asked people to stay away from the store while the investigation is underway. “Our first responders are well trained and ready to respond; Please give them space to do so,” the city said in a tweet.
“We are shocked by this tragic incident at our Chesapeake, Virginia store,” Walmart said in a statement. “We are praying for those affected, the community, and our partners. We are working closely with law enforcement agencies, and we are focused on supporting our partners,” the statement said. Zometa Jeffery told her mother, Betsy Umphlett, texted her from inside the store at the time of the shooting, alerting her that someone had opened fire.
“I’m crying, I’m shaking,” Jeffrey told CNN. “I was talking to him about buying a turkey for Thanksgiving, then this text came through.”
Jeffrey said his mother was not injured but was shocked, and they were reunited. A reunion center has been set up at the Chesapeake Convention Center, city officials said. They are asking that people in stores only go to immediate family and emergency contact centers. The Washington, D.C., field office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives is assisting local police in the investigation, the bureau said on Twitter.
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