Shooting in a shopping center in Virginia: there are dead and wounded

According to initial information, the supermarket manager would have fired, who then turned the weapon on himself and took his own life. This would happen in the umpteenth shooting in the United States.

TO ChesepeakeIn Virginia, a man opened fire with an automatic weapon at a Walmart store at those present. Police confirmed on Twitter that there would be up to 10 dead and many injured.

The attack took place at 10.15 pm local time in Sam Circle, a shopping mall in the area that is very popular with young people.

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Also according to the first reconstructions, the man would have fired inside the shop. Unknown the reasons for the gesture. But he would have acted alone.

A witness reported on Twitter that the massacre took place in un room dedicated to employees. A woman told CNN that her mother was in the mall and that she was texting: she was not injured, but in shock.

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Democratic Virginia state senator Mark Warner said he was sickened by another mass shooting. The senator of the same state L. Louise Lucas he always wrote on Twitter that he will not rest until a solution to the epidemic of gun violence in the USA is found.

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The attack on Tuesday 22 November follows the one in a few days an LGBTQI+ club in the state of Colorado in which 5 people died and 17 were injured. The attacker here was stopped by the promptness of a customer, a former soldier. Richard Fierro, called a hero, had gone to celebrate a birthday in the club that has a drag queen show. He sat with his wife Jessica, daughter Kassy, ​​her boyfriend Raymond Green, who died in the shooting. He located the bomber, who had already killed bartenders Daniel Aston and Derrick Rump, grabbed him from behind and pinned him to the ground. The bomber’s rifle slipped off and Fierro managed to get the gun from him with which he then shot him. In 2019 another mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso Texas, with 23 people dead, in March 2021 one in a Colorado supermarket.

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Source: Vanity Fair

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