A manager at a Walmart in Virginia opened fire reportedly with a pistol and killed six people in a break room on Tuesday night. Four people were injured.
Officers were called to the scene when 31-year-old Andre Bing began his massacre in the Walmart in Chesapeake. After his rampage, he shot and killed himself. Bing had worked at Walmart since 2010, according to witnesses.
The shooter’s motive is unknown and he was the sole gunman.
One employee of the Walmart, Briana Tyler, lucky to be alive, told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that the shooter was a manager she was told “to look out for.”
“He wasn’t aiming at anybody specifically. He just started shooting throughout the entire break room. He looked directly at me but luckily he missed my head by an inch or two,” Tyler said.
Police Chief Mark Solesky held a news conference on Wednesday and said that the FBI was assisting in the investigation.
A witness on the scene said that he had been in the staff room, but had left right before a “colleague” entered the room and started shooting.
One woman told WAVY-TV that her brother, a 20-year-old employee, was shot and wounded ten minutes after he arrived at work.
Republican Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin ordered flags to be flown at half-mast to honor the victims.
“There will be time for us to react and better understand but today is a moment where we need to support these families that are facing the unimaginable,” he said.
President Joe Biden said the attack was “another horrific and senseless act of violence.”
“I signed the most significant gun reform in a generation, but that is not nearly enough. We must take greater action,” Biden said.
