According to one witness, the shooter was a store manager.
Six people were killed and four more were injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart Supercenter in Chesapeake, Virginia, on Tuesday evening.
The shooting reportedly took place as workers were beginning their evening shifts. According to law enforcement, the gunman was a 31-year-old employee who was armed with a pistol. He reportedly died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The shooting is the deadliest mass shooting at a retail center in the U.S. since a white supremacist shot and killed 10 Black people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, in May.
According to a report from WAVY, an NBC affiliate station in Virginia, a witness to the shooting said that the perpetrator was not only an employee of the Walmart but also a store manager. The shooting began as employees were in a meeting room to learn their shift assignments, the witness said, and the attack seemed to be premeditated.
Several lawmakers reacted to news of the shooting by amplifying calls to pass federal gun reforms.
“It is long overdue for Congress to pass the common sense gun safety reform that Americans are demanding,” Sen.
