BEAVER CREEK, Ohio (AP) — Walmart is working closely with investigators to determine why a gunman opened fire at one of its Ohio stores, wounding four people, and then killed himself. He said there was.
The attack was reported around 8:30 p.m. Monday at a Walmart in Beavercreek, a town of about 50,000 people in the Dayton metropolitan area.
Police Lt. Scott Molnar said at a news conference that “the current status of the victims is unknown” but that all were taken to a hospital for treatment.
Police also announced that the gunman died after an apparent suicide. His name, motive for the attack and other details were not immediately released.
Police earlier announced on social media that the store had been cleared and secured and there was no “active threat.”
“We are saddened by what happened at our Beavercreek, Ohio, store. This remains a developing situation and we are working closely with law enforcement authorities on the scene,” Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, said in a statement. said in a statement.
The shooting happened the next day. two people were shot dead Outside a Walmart south of Anchorage, Alaska. Police are still investigating the suspect in this incident. The store was evacuated before closing for the day, and officers helped people reach their cars.
Last November, a Walmart supervisor was killed in Chesapeake, Virginia. 6 employees shot dead The Tuesday before Thanksgiving. The suspect died at the scene from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
A white gunman in 2019 23 people killed at Walmart in El Paso In a racist attack targeting Hispanic shoppers.
The Ohio store where Monday’s shooting occurred was the scene of a fatal police shooting nearly a decade ago.
white police officer Shooting and killing 22-year-old John Crawford IIIThe family of a black man reached a $1.7 million settlement with the city of Beavercreek after picking up an unwrapped pellet rifle found on a shelf in August 2014. The settlement also included changes to police policy.
Walmart launched computer-based active shooter training in 2015, focusing on three pillars: avoid danger, maintain distance, and lastly, defend.And in 2019, after the El Paso shooting, Walmart End of sale It banned the sale of certain types of ammunition and asked customers not to carry firearms openly in stores. Currently, we only sell hunting rifles and related ammunition.