The death toll has not been determined, but according to local television station WAVY, they are estimated at around ten
Police in the city of Chesapeake, in the state of Virginia, have mobilized as they were notified of fire inside a supermarket of the Walmart chain which had the effect of lose their lives and injure many people inside the store.
According to its representative who spoke to the CNN television network, Leo Kozinski, police officers who entered the supermarket they found themselves in front of dead and wounded.
#BREAKING Chesapeake police confirmed they responded to the Sam’s Circle Walmart for an active shooter. Multiple people have died and multiple people are injured. @WAVY_News pic.twitter.com/wF6faU4swL
— Michelle Wolf (@MichelleWolfTV) November 23, 2022
The death toll has not been determined, however, according to local television station WAVY, they number about ten.
Chesapeake Township said via Twitter that the perpetrator of the attack on the store “is among the dead”.
🚨#BREAKING: A Walmart manager has shot multiple employees ⁰
📌#Chesapeake l #VA ⁰
Police are to responding to multiple fatalities and injuries inside a Walmart superstore in VA with officials saying the Manager at Walmart Started to open fire shooting Multiple employees inside pic.twitter.com/JgnCleOvz3— RAWSALERTS (@rawsalerts) November 23, 2022
One of the employees who managed to get out, claimed that the perpetrator was one of the managers of the store.
Alleged gunman at the #chesapeake Walmart, story will be backpage news by morning. pic.twitter.com/KD7RAQwKAX
— CLT Murder Stats (@CLTmurders) November 23, 2022
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