Late Tuesday evening, the police in the city of Chesapeake, Virginia, received an emergency call: A man is said to have shot indiscriminately in a Walmart supermarket. When the officials arrive on site, they are presented with a picture of horror. Several people are dead.
Several people were killed in a gun attack at a Walmart supermarket in Virginia on Tuesday evening (local time). According to the Chesapeake city government, citing the police, a gunman shot people indiscriminately in the supermarket.
The attacker himself is also dead. His body was found in the store, said Leo Kosinski, a spokesman for the police department, in a brief press conference. He did not provide specific information on the number of dead, but it was “less than 10,” said Kosinski.
Police responded to an emergency call around 10 p.m., Kosinski said. Upon entering the store, officials found “several fatalities and several injured.” It is still unclear whether the shooter was an employee of the supermarket and whether he killed himself after shooting at the customers. The spokesman said he did not believe police officers fired any shots.