Survivors and investigators are spending Thanksgiving questioning the motive behind a mass shooting in a Virginia Walmart that left 6 workers dead.
A Walmart manager opened fire on fellow employees in the break room of a Virginia store, killing six people in the country's second high-profile mass shooting in four days, police and witnesses said.After an ordinary workday turned deadly at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, survivors and investigators are spending the Thanksgiving holiday questioning the motive of an employee who opened fire on coworkers, killing six before fatally turning the gun on himself.
"I know this community and I know it well, and I know that we will come together and lend a helping hand to the victims' families," Chesapeake Mayor Rick West said Wednesday in a video message. Bing shot three of Prioleau's friends "before I took off running. Half of us didn't believe it was real until some of us saw all the blood on the floor," she said.
Overall, the US has suffered more than 600 mass shootings so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Both the non-profit and CNN define mass shootings as those in which four or more people are shot, not including the assailant.In Chesapeake, the horror began less than an hour before the store was set to close after a busy holiday shopping day.
"I could have ran out that door ... and I stayed. I stayed so they wouldn't be alone in their last moments," Wilczewski said in a message to the families of two victims.
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