‘Laughing’ Walmart worker opened fire in break room of Virginia store then turned his pistol on himself in ‘targeted’ pre-Thanksgiving rampage: Seven dead – including gunman – and four hospitalized

A Walmart manager killed six people at his store in Chesapeake, Virginia, last night before shooting himself dead in a pre-Thanksgiving rampage that witnesses say was a targeted attack on his colleagues.

The suspect has not yet been named. He opened fire in the break room of the store in Sam’s Circle at 10.10pm on Tuesday night while shoppers were carrying out last minute Thanksgiving errands.

By 10.16pm, when the first cops entered the store, the gunman was dead. Police confirmed on Wednesday that he died from a self-inflicted wound.

One body was discovered outside, beside the store’s entrance, according to witnesses. It’s unclear if that was the shooter’s body or one of the victim’s.

One survivor told local outlet WAVY that she heard the gunman laughing at some point during the attack, and that he deliberately targeted a room full of staff who had gathered to discuss the shift they’d just completed.

Among those killed was a teenage employee, according to another survivor.

Kevin Harper, who works at the store, survived the attack. Immediately after fleeing the store, he launched a Facebook Live where he said it was a ‘manager’ who’d opened fire.

‘It was the manager, one of the managers. Just left out the break room, manager came in and started capping people up in there. We lost a few of our associates.’

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