Police in Indiana said Friday that heroic actions by a Walmart employee and law enforcement officers kept a gunman who shot and injured one female employee from doing more harm
The woman was the only person injured late Thursday when 25-year-old Ronald Ray Mosley II walked into the store's office where employees were meeting, told everyone to line up against a wall and shot the victim. At that moment, another female employee fled the room and called 911. That employee then saw the shooter leave the room, so she ran back in, helped the victim into another room and locked the door.
Sgt. Anna Gray of the Evansville Police Department said officers were within the building within four minutes of the 911 call, and Mosley was shot and killed by officers who tracked him down shortly thereafter.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below. Officer Taylor Merriss said Friday there was at least one victim, a female employee. Police didn't immediately release her name, age or the extent of her injuries. But Merriss said she"was able to talk when she was taken away from the scene," theEvansville police and Vanderburgh County sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of an active shooter in the store on Thursday at around 10 p.m. Merriss said customers and employees tried to hide or escape before officers arrived.
“When officers went in, they were trying to locate the suspect and he was all over the store. He would shoot at officers and move. So it wasn’t contained to just one area inside,” she said. Walmart, the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retail giant, said in a statement that the “entire Walmart family is shocked by the senseless violence that occurred at our Evansville store, and our hearts are with our associate at this time."
Mosley told police he “blacked out” after that, but the affidavit states that he subsequently attacked three other coworkers on May 18, 2022.
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