Authorities have Linked five of the six people who were killed in a Virginia Walmart after the store’s director began firing Tuesday night before killing himself.


Five of the departed victims were linked as Lorenzo Gamble; Brian Pendleton; Kellie Pyle; Randall Blevins; and Tyneka Johnson, according to a Wednesday news release from the City of Chesapeake.
The sixth departed victim was a 16- time-old boy who authorities aren't naming because he was a minor, the megacity said.

All six victims were employed by Walmart, a company prophet told CNN.
“ The City of Chesapeake has always been known as the ‘ City That Cares ’ and now, further than ever, we know our City will show up and watch for those who need it most, ” the release said. “ Please join us in soliciting for the family and musketeers of these community members who we've lost. ”
Earlier Wednesday, the city identified the shooter as 31-year-old Andre Bing, saying he was “armed with one handgun and had multiple magazines on his person.”
Bing was an “ late platoon lead ” and had been employed with Walmart since 2010, the company said in a statement.

Authorities were digging into the shooter’s background Wednesday for information on what could have motivated the attack, police said.
“ Law enforcement will do what they can and I promise you, further information will follow, ” Chesapeake Mayor Rick West said in a videotape communication posted Wednesday evening.

Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, the suspect in the mass firing that killed five people and wounded 17 at an LGBTQ café appears with state public protectors Joseph Archambault and Michael Bowman before a judge during his debate hail in a videotape link from jail, drooped to the side and in a wheelchair and showing facial injuries in Colorado Springs, Colorado,U.S. November 23, 2022 in a court artist sketch. REUTERS Jane Rosenberg
Suspect in the Colorado Springs LGBTQ club firing will be held without bond as prosecutors work to finalize formal charges
The violence marks yet another mass firing in a place traditionally seen as safe – from seminaries to hospitals to stores.

Just 170 long hauls west of Chesapeake, a 22- time-old pupil at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville allegedly opened fire on fellow scholars this month, killing three of them on a machine returning to lot from a field trip to Washington, DC.
Last weekend, a 22- time-old shot and killed five people at an LGBTQ café in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and 19 others were injured, authorities said.

The US has suffered further than 600 mass blowups so far this time, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Both thenon-profit and CNN define mass blowups as those in which four or further people are shot, not including the bushwhacker.
Director came by and ‘ just started scattering ’
At least 50 people were inside the Walmart when the violence erupted, police said. Some of them have begun intimately participating their accounts of how a calm night turned into a horrifying tragedy.

The deadly rage started around 1012p.m. Tuesday, lower than an hour before the Walmart Supercenter was set to close.

The first officer arrived on scene within two twinkles and officers entered the store roughly two twinkles after that, at about 1016p.m., police said.

Hand Kevin Harper said a coworker entered the breakroom and started shooting.

Law enforcement, including the FBI, work at the scene of a mass firing at a Walmart, Wednesday,Nov. 23, 2022, in Chesapeake,Va.
Associates say Walmart shooter showed odd and threatening geste in the once
“ I just left out the breakroom( the marksman) starts cappin ’ people up in there, ” Harper said in a Facebook Live videotape. The videotape is no longer on his Facebook runner, but it has beenre-shared on social media.

“ He came by there and just started scattering, ” Harper said.

At least six injured people were transported to original hospitals for treatment, police said.

Four people injured in the firing remained rehabilitated Wednesday morning, Chesapeake Police Chief Mark Solesky said. At least two were in critical condition, saidDr. Michael Hooper, vice chairman and principal medical officer at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.

Jalon Jones, 24, was shot several times by the marksman Tuesday, his mama , Kimberly Shupe, told CNN chapter WTKR. Shupe addressed journalists Wednesday outside the sanitarium where her son was in the ferocious care unit in stable condition.

Flowers and balloons have been placed near the scene of a mass firing at a Walmart, Wednesday,Nov. 23, 2022, in Chesapeake, Va. A Walmart director opened fire on fellow workers in the break room of the Virginia store, killing several people in the country's alternate high- profile mass firing in four days, police and substantiations said Wednesday.
workers forced to flee after director' started circumscribing people' at a Walmart in Virginia, substantiations say
“ Three individualities, including the shooter, were located departed in the break room of the store, ” the megacity of Chesapeake twittered. “ One victim was located departed toward the front of the store. Three other victims were transported to original hospitals for farther treatment, but succumbed to their injuries. ”

client Jeromy Basham, who was at the Walmart Tuesday night to buy tablecloths, said he heard the sound of the shots and a many seconds latterly, people began rushing out of the store.

John Furner, Walmart US ’ chairman and CEO, said the mass firing in Chesapeake was exceptionally woeful because the bushwhacker was an hand.

“ We feel tragedies like this tête-à-tête and deeply. But this bone is especially painful as we've learned the marksman was a Walmart associate, ” Furner said in a statement. “ The entire Walmart family is agonized. Our hearts and prayers are with those impacted, and we're thankful for the conduct of first askers. ”
The FBI’s Norfolk division said the agency is aiding the Chesapeake Police Department in the disquisition.

Authorities ask anyone with information about the firing to call 1-800-CALL-FBI.
CNN’s Amanda Jackson, Aya Elamroussi, PaulP. Murphy, David Williams, Michelle Watson, Chris Boyette, Holmes Lybrand, Dave Alsup, Joe Sutton, Braden Walker, Lauren Koenig, Brian Todd, Andy Rose and Josh Campbell contributed to this report.