Snochia Moseley, identified by police, used 9mm Glock handgun to kill three victims, then herself at a Rite Aid facility; a motive wasn't immediately made clear
ABERDEEN, Md. — A mass shooting broke out Thursday in Maryland at a Rite Aid distribution center, about 35 miles northeast of Baltimore. Police say a 26-year-old woman armed with a handgun opened fire on coworkers. Three were killed and three others wounded. The woman then shot herself and later died.
First responders arrived on scene just after 9 a.m., about five minutes after the shooting began.
Terrified employees poured out of the facility as police and medical first responders arrived, finding a horrific scene where seven people had been shot.
Three of the victims died and three others were seriously injured.
The seventh was the shooter, identified by police as Snochia Moseley, a temporary employee of the facility.
« Our suspect is a lone female suspect, age 26, who had a last known address in Baltimore County, » Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler said. « She has died at the hospital from a fatal injury, self-inflicted gunshot wound. »
She used a 9mm Glock handgun. Her motive was not made immediately clear.
Krystal Watson’s husband called from inside the building after witnessing the shooting.
« She didn’t even aim, she just shot, » Watson said. « It’s so upsetting, so emotional for me right now. I just want to get to my husband. »
One woman in the building sent a text to her children, writing, « I love you. Be good an take care of daddy an the pets if something should happen. »
Thursday’s incident was the third mass shooting in the past 24 hours. On Wednesday, a gunman wounded four coworkers at a software company in Middleton, Wisconsin, before he was killed in a shootout with the police.
Also Wednesday, a police officer took down a gunman in Masontown, Pennsylvania, who had shot and wounded four people outside a courtroom .
There have been two other multiple shootings in Harford County recently.
Last year, three people were killed at an industrial park, two others were injured. And in 2016 a gunman fatally shot two Harford County sheriff’s deputies.
Law enforcement authorities did not know Moseley, but it is incredibly rare for a woman to commit a crime like this one.
According to a recent FBI study, men carried out 94 percent of mass shootings between 2000 and 2013.
