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What we cognize astir the shooting

Here’s what we cognize truthful acold astir the wide shooting astatine the Chesapeake subdivision of Walmart.

Oliver O'Connell24 November 2022 21:30

These are the six victims of the Chesapeake Walmart shooting

Six employees were killed successful the onslaught connected the Chesapeake, Virginia, subdivision of Walmart connected 22 November 2022.

Night displacement squad person Andre Bing walked into the interruption country wherever 14 employees were gathering soon aft 10pm and opened occurrence with a pistol. He past turned the weapon connected himself.

Here’s what we cognize astir the six victims.

Oliver O'Connell24 November 2022 21:00

What we cognize astir alleged gunman successful Chesapeake Walmart wide shooting

Andre Bing, a 31-year-old from Chesapeake, is accused of opening occurrence wrong the interruption country of the store connected Sam’s Circle astatine astir 10pm connected Tuesday.

Here’s what we cognize astir him.

Oliver O'Connell24 November 2022 20:30

Death toll could inactive rise

The decease toll from the mass shooting astatine a Walmart successful Chesapeake, Virginia, is apt to ascent arsenic a 23-year-old store idiosyncratic is expected to person his beingness enactment instrumentality switched off.

Oliver O'Connell24 November 2022 20:00

Chesapeake Walmart onslaught sparks calls for unit prevention astatine work

But portion many companies supply progressive shooting training, experts accidental determination is overmuch little absorption connected however to forestall workplace violence, peculiarly however to place and code worrisome behaviour among employees.

Workers acold excessively often don’t cognize however to admit informing signs, and adjacent much crucially don’t cognize however to study suspicious behaviour oregon consciousness empowered to bash so, according to workplace information and quality resources experts.

Oliver O'Connell24 November 2022 19:30

Chilling ‘manifesto’ recovered connected Walmart gunman Andre Bing’s phone

A instrumentality enforcement root told 10 On Your Side that, successful the document, Bing, 31, described being “upset” astir a caller alteration successful employment presumption and complained that helium was being “harassed” by chap employees.

Officials person not confirmed the beingness of the manifesto and are yet to uncover the motive for Tuesday night’s massacre.

Rachel Sharp reports.

Oliver O'Connell24 November 2022 19:00

Biden rails against ‘sick’ semi-automatic weapons and unenforced reddish emblem laws

President Joe Biden denounced the proliferation of semi-automatic weapons and the information that immoderate areas of the state did not enforce alleged “red emblem laws” meant to forestall radical who posed a information to themselves and others.

Mr Biden made the remarks connected Thanksgiving successful Nantucket aft helium had delivered pumpkin pies to firefighters.

Eric Garcia reports.

Oliver O'Connell24 November 2022 18:45

Analysis: Walmart has faced calls to prohibition weapon income for years. Will Chesapeake alteration that?

By quality of its tremendous size, with thousands of stores crossed the US, the nation’s largest retailer is astatine the centre of statement implicit retail weapon income and a acquainted spot for American violence, Alex Woodward reports.

Oliver O'Connell24 November 2022 18:30

Shooter seemed to people definite people, witnesser says

The Walmart supervisor who changeable and killed six co-workers successful Virginia seemed to people radical and fired astatine immoderate victims aft they were already deed and appeared to beryllium dead, said a witnesser who was contiguous erstwhile the shooting started.

Jessica Wilczewski said that workers were gathered successful a store interruption country to statesman their overnight displacement precocious Tuesday erstwhile squad person Andre Bing entered and opened occurrence with a handgun. While different witnesser has described Bing arsenic shooting wildly, Wilczewski said that she observed him people definite people.

“The mode helium was acting — helium was going hunting,” Wilczewski told The Associated Press connected Thursday. “The mode helium was looking astatine people’s faces and the mode helium did what helium did, helium was picking radical out.”

She said that she observed him sprout astatine radical who were already connected the ground.

“What I bash cognize is that helium made definite who helium wanted dead, was dead,” she said. “He went backmost and changeable dormant bodies that were already dead. To marque sure.”

Wilczewski said she had lone worked astatine the store for 5 days and didn’t cognize who Bing got on with oregon had problems with. She said the information that she was a caller worker whitethorn person been wherefore helium spared her.

She said that aft the shooting started, a co-worker sitting adjacent to her pulled her nether the array to hide. She said that astatine 1 point, Bing told her to get retired from nether the table. But erstwhile helium saw who she was, helium told her, “Jessie, spell home.” She said she dilatory got up and past ran retired of the store.

AP

Oliver O'Connell24 November 2022 18:22

Analysis: Why the hellhole can’t America extremity this deadly weapon violence?

You tally retired of words and you tally retired of emotions, writes Andrew Buncombe.

But alongside sympathy for the victims, are 2 different emotions that bubble up and volition not spell away. And they are choler and outrage.

Oliver O'Connell24 November 2022 18:00