Gunman killed 2 Walmart colleagues and wounded a responding police officer in far northwest Mississippi, authorities say.
Southaven Mayor Darren Musselwhite called the shooter a"disgruntled employee" with"a personal grievance with his employer."Just two weeks ago, Southaven police and firefighters conducted an active shooter simulation, according to Moore and Musselwhite.Customer Phil Cox, 70, had just left that Walmart when he heard a gunshot near him in the parking lot, turned and saw a man, no more than 40 feet from him, sprinting into the store.
"We were within milliseconds of being very close to him, coming right at him and maybe being in the line of fire," Cox, a resident of Forrest City, Arkansas, who had spent the night at nearby Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto taking part in a sleep research program, told NBC News."Now that we've had some time to think about it, it's alarming we were that close," he said.
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