Witnesses confirmed on Wednesday that a manager of a Wal-Mart store in Virginia, US, opened fire on his colleagues in a break room, killing 6 people before pulling a gun on himself, in the latest shootout mass in the United States.
Two employees who were in the break room said the gunman, identified as Andre Bing, 31, of Chesapeake, Va., said nothing as he began shooting at gathered workers Tuesday night before their night shift.
“I just saw 3 of my colleagues and friends get killed in front of me, Andrei killed them in cold blood,” Dounia Priollo wrote in a Facebook post.
At least 4 others were injured in the attack, which took place while around 50 people were inside the shop.
And the authorities have announced that they are still investigating the motives of Bing, who arrived armed with a pistol and many rounds of ammunition. The city said its SWAT team executed a search warrant on his home.
“Investigators are working to learn more about the shooter’s background and possible motive for the shooting,” he added in a statement.
The incident comes on the heels of the killing of 5 people at a nightclub in Colorado Springs on Saturday, and US President Joe Biden described Wednesday’s tragedy as “another horrific act of senseless violence,” referring to a shooting earlier this month that killed 3 University of Virginia students.
This wasn’t the first mass shooting at Wal-Mart, which has thousands of stores across the United States.
And in August 2019, 23 people were killed in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas near the US-Mexico border in what law enforcement officials described as domestic terrorism.
