Shoots fired in Walmart North Carolina?

[MrSwede]

Newspaper here writing about a man shot 4 people in a Walmart Greenville North Carolina. Cops got him after hitting him with gunfire. God work from youre police. Hope the people that got hit make it and didnt get to wounded.
Any more news in this?

 

[billwill]

Ah yes....coming to a town close to you. Very familiar with that part of town and I must say it is not the most friendly area if you look like a sheepople. I'm surprised that no body took a shot at the shooter. Lots of people packing in that area.

My prayers go out to those on the receiving end of another wack-job's furry.

 

[jlrhiner]

I just heard that the shooter had an issue at a local law office, and began there shooting one person. He then walked across the street to Wally World and began randomly shooting at people, hitting 4 more. After police arrived, he fired at them and they smoked his butt. All victims are in the hospital. He was using a shotgun.

 

[redlevel]

He was using a shotgun.

Was it a Hi-Cap Assault shotgun?

 

[mc5aw]

Prices on Mossbergs 500s and Remington 870s just spiked. Based on the destructive potential of a shotgun, it's a blessing not more carnage occurred.

 

[rwsmith]

Glad they nailed

I just heard that the shooter had an issue at a local law office, and began there shooting one person. He then walked across the street to Wally World and began randomly shooting at people, hitting 4 more. After police arrived, he fired at them and they smoked his butt. All victims are in the hospital. He was using a shotgun.

Glad they nailed the perp and that maybe nobody got killed, except the perp, that is.

 

[tops]

Was it a Hi-Cap Assault shotgun?

Don't know what kind of cap it was wearing but it was an assault shotgun. Larry

 

[chud333]

Sounds like some nut case had a beef with someone at a Law
firm and then decided to run across the street to a WallyWorld
parking lot and shoot some more people after shooting his intended
target at the Law office. By the report i read all people shot have
non life threatening injuries. Here's a quote from the Chief of Police
Hassan Aden:

The shooter was using a "pistol-grip shotgun" with an unknown number of rounds, Aden said. He had a bag filled with ammunition, Aden said.

"He had enough to really do some significant damage," the chief said.

Oh No, Not the dreaded "pistol grip" !!!!!!
Chuck

 

[Roadtrash]

He should have used a double barrel then he could have told the police he was just trying to scare away the bad guys.

 

[CordWood]

That may have been the most ammo they have had in the store since December.
Butch

 

[jaykellogg]

None of the reports I read indicate that anyone died. There was a Geico insurance adjuster shot at the law firm and three more (plus the perp) at WalMart. AFAIK, the perp is still living. I think he was using low brass shotgun shells.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

None of the reports I read indicate that anyone died. There was a Geico insurance adjuster shot at the law firm and three more (plus the perp) at WalMart. AFAIK, the perp is still living. I think he was using low brass shotgun shells.

Which is why I have an iron clad rule against clients bringing shotguns to any type of meeting with insurance adjusters.

 

[jaykellogg]

Which is why I have an iron clad rule against clients bringing shotguns to any type of meeting with insurance adjusters.

What would you do if a client showed up with a ballistic vest, 12 gauge and a decidedly negative attitude? Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[vigil617]

OK, just to clarify a couple of things:

He never entered the Wal-Mart. Three of the people wounded were shot in the parking lot. The other was shot in the parking lot of the law firm (part of a strip-mall type center)across the street.

The perp was shot behind a Toys R Us store. A witness said he was hit twice in the left leg and once apparently in the high upper body, which spun him around before he dropped.

All four are, as of this writing, still in the hospital; no fatalities.

I had not read about the fact that an insurance adjuster was the one wounded outside the law firm. If that is true, it certainly is no reason to make a joke about.

I think the sheriff made the point about the pistol-grip shotgun to make it clear that this was not a "modern sporting rifle" and to emphasize that the bag of ammo he was carrying was still sufficient to have done a lot of damage if law enforcement had not responded so quickly and effectively.

in the meantime, though, where was the "good guy with a gun" that is supposed to help stop these incidents before law enforcement responds in the many, many seconds it supposedly takes them to? Just asking.

 

[jaykellogg]

in the meantime, though, where was the "good guy with a gun" that is supposed to help stop these incidents before law enforcement responds in the many, many seconds it supposedly takes them to? Just asking.

There was a thread about this not too long ago here. Almost everyone agreed that unless attacked they would probably not seek to involve themselves.

The perp in this case was wearing a ballistic vest.

I doubt is some armed citizen shot this perp he (or she) would be prosecuted, NC law allows the use of deadly force to defend your life or the life of another.

 

[vigil617]

I remember the thread Jay mentions, and the majority were right on the money, I think. How far we as CCW'ers are willing to go to defend others who are being threatened with deadly force is a decision each of us has to make. I just take issue with Wayne's line that makes it sound like we as armed citizens will be engaging rogue shooters whenever and wherever as "good guys with guns." I know, I know: it ain't popular to deviate from the party line, but sometimes, I just think we need to take a reality check. My opinion only; yours may vary, and you are certainly entitled as long as you'll give me mine.

 

[jaykellogg]

I do not want to take someone's life and I doubt anyone here does either. If I were standing beside my car and witnessed a man wearing a vest and shooting people with a shotgun I would say at this point the decision would be made right then. It has little to do with bravery, but if I felt the shooter needed to be taken out now I might intervene. If I heard sirens and I had not engaged the shooter I probably would not.

 

[mc5aw]

Unless the BG in the ballistic vest was bearing down on me with his shotgun, my priority would be looking for cover asap, and trying to escape that parking area unscathed ... not getting involved in a gunfight.

 

[bp231986]

if i was a few lanes down from the attacker i would probably make a run for it. If i was right in the heat of it i would get involved. Really all depending on my location.