Walmart Gunman Bought a Pistol to Kill Co-Workers and Left a ‘Death Note’ - The New York Times

U.S.|Walmart Gunman Bought a Pistol to Kill Co-Workers and Left a ‘Death Note’

The Walmart supervisor who changeable and killed six of his co-workers astatine a store successful Chesapeake, Va., precocious connected Tuesday purchased a pistol lone hours earlier the massacre and near a enactment connected his phone, successful which helium described however helium planned to people immoderate colleagues and spare others, according to caller details released by the Chesapeake constabulary connected Friday.

As friends and relatives of the victims mourned, with a candlelight vigil planned by the metropolis connected Monday, the caller details provided the archetypal denotation of what led to the eruption of workplace violence, which took spot arsenic members of what has been described arsenic a close-knit overnight team met successful a Walmart interruption room.

The constabulary said an investigation of a telephone belonging to the gunman, identified arsenic Andre Bing, 31, turned up the message, successful which helium said employees astatine the store had mocked him and compared him to a serial killer. In what helium called a “death note,” the gunman said helium would not termination an worker who had crab due to the fact that his parent had died from the disease.

“My God forgive maine for what I’m going to do…” the enactment ended, according to images shared by Chesapeake metropolis officials connected Twitter. Officials did not accidental erstwhile the enactment was written.

The caller details released Friday indicated the easiness with which the gunman had purchased the pistol utilized successful the killing, a 9-millimeter handgun. “The weapon was legally purchased from a section store connected the greeting of Tuesday,” the metropolis said successful a statement. “He had nary transgression history.”

According to a witness, the gunman opened occurrence astir 10 p.m. without informing aft entering the interruption room. The victims included respective employees who had worked with him for years — Randall Blevins, Lorenzo Gamble and Brian Pendleton — and others who had much precocious joined the staff, Kellie Pyle and Tyneka Johnson. One unfortunate was a 16-year-old lad whose sanction has not been released.

This processing communicative volition beryllium updated.