EPD: Shooting reported at West Side Walmart - Courier & Press

EVANSVILLE − Evansville constabulary accidental a erstwhile worker opened occurrence wrong the West Side Walmart connected Thursday night, injuring astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic earlier helium was killed by officers.

EPD spokeswoman Sgt. Anna Gray identified the shooter Friday greeting arsenic 25-year-old Ronald Ray Mosley II. He antecedently worked for Walmart.

The unfortunate was a existent employee, Officer Taylor Merriss said during an update from the country connected Friday. She didn't merchandise the victim's sanction and didn't cognize her existent condition, but said she believes the unfortunate "was capable to speech erstwhile she was taken distant from the scene.”

EPD volition person a quality league aboriginal connected Friday.

Emergency dispatchers received a telephone astir the shooter astatine 9:59 p.m. connected Thursday. Seven EPD officers and 1 Vanderburgh County Sheriff's lawman responded to the country and entered the store instantly to find the shooter.

"There were aggregate officers looking for the offender," Merriss said. "And helium could travel astir the country astatine immoderate time."

The shooting dispersed done aggregate areas of the store arsenic customers and employees tried to fell oregon escape. Merriss described the assemblage camera footage arsenic "eerie."

“He would sprout astatine officers and move,” Gray said.

The shooting lasted astir 15 minutes, Merriss said. According to assemblage camera reviewed by police, Mosley attempted to exit the store but was met astatine the doorway by officers. He went backmost wrong and was yet killed by responding instrumentality enforcement.

The section said determination could beryllium arsenic galore arsenic 50 witnesses. Dozens of officers from the Evansville Police Department, Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office and Indiana State Police were connected country Thursday night, with ambulances besides parked successful beforehand of the store.

“A batch of radical were fleeing,” Gray said. “We bash inquire that immoderate witnesses telephone successful if they person information.”

The store is located astatine 335 S. Red Bank Road, conscionable southbound of the intersection of the Lloyd Expressway and Red Bank Road.

This is simply a breaking quality communicative and volition beryllium updated.