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Police were called to a shooting at a Walmart in Dayton, Ohio, on Monday.
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A gunman opened fire Monday night at a Walmart near Dayton, Ohio, injuring four people before taking his own life, police said.
The suspect, described only as a man, entered the store around 8:35 p.m. ET and shot four people, then turned the gun on himself. beavercreek police Said. The man died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
The Beavercreek Police Department said in a statement that “no shots were fired by responding officers.” social media posts.
Capt. Scott Molnar said at a news conference Monday that the victims were taken to area hospitals for treatment. No information was available regarding their status.
Police have not identified the suspect and it is unclear whether he knew any of the victims who were at the store in Beavercreek, a suburb east of Dayton.
Monday night’s assault was at least the second fatal shooting at the store, nearly 10 years since police shot and killed a man with an air gun who found packages missing on store shelves. It happened a year later. The shooting was among at least 609 mass shootings in the U.S. this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which ranks mass shootings as at least four people fatally shot, not including the shooter. It is defined as an incident.
“We are saddened by what happened at our Beavercreek, Ohio, store,” a Walmart spokesperson said in a statement to CNN on Monday night. “The situation remains evolving and we are working closely with investigators on the scene.”
The FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation were investigating the shooting Monday night.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
CNN’s Maria Sole Campinoti and Amanda Jackson contributed to this report.