Here we go again...Shooting at Texas Wal-Mart

[BoomerD]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/19/us/texas-walmart-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

At least 4 people shot at a Texas Walmart

(CNN) -- At least four people were shot Sunday in a Walmart parking lot in central Texas, police said.

A suspect was arrested at the scene, they said. The shooting took place very early in the morning in Cedar Park, which is just north of Austin.

Early indications were that a group of people met in the parking lot to fight and that at least one person then opened fire, police said.

No Walmart employees or customers were wounded, police said.

The names of those involved in the shooting were not immediately released. An investigation is ongoing.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Gang members shooting each other.

Nobody cares.

 

[MontyAC]

Nothing to see here.

 

[techs]

Early indications were that a group of people met in the parking lot to fight and that at least one person then opened fire, police said.

Walmart is getting into the gang fight business now? Must be a spinoff of their new pharmacies.

 

[BoomerD]

Gang members shooting each other.

Nobody cares.

IF the gangbangers only shot each other...I'd agree with you. They're doing a public service...but all too often, they shoot innocent bystanders with their "point and spray" method of shooting.
(plus the taxpayers get stuck with the cost of medical care for those who get shot and survive.)

 

[BoomerD]

Looks like they have the shooter in custody. He's also injured.

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/cont...012/08/19/multiple_people_hospitalized_i.html

Updated at 3:46 p.m.: Cedar Park police said the suspect in Sunday’s early morning shooting outside a Wal-Mart is Soloman Onwukaife, 18, who they say used a handgun to shoot four people.

Police say Onwukaife remains in an area hospital with facial wounds that don’t appear to be a result of gunfire and will be booked upon release. He has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, police said.

The shooting happened at about 4:30 a.m. during an altercation in the store’s parking lot, following a dispute earlier at a party near Cedar Park, Police Chief Henry Fluck said.

“There was a disturbance at that party and many of the individuals involved agreed to meet at the Wal-Mart to settle the disagreement,” Fluck said.

Fluck did not name any of the four victims, all of whom he said were involved in the fight and were 18 or 19 years old.

Fluck said of the four victims sent to the hospital, one has been released and the other three are in critical but stable condition.

Updated at 11:45 a.m.: Authorities said today that one of the four people who was shot drove himself to a Williamson County hospital, where he was being treated for gunshot wounds that were not considered critical.

Updated at 10:35 a.m.: Cedar Park Police Capt. Mike Harmon said the majority of the Wal-Mart at 201 Walton Way is open again. The entire store was shut down following an early morning shooting in a parking lot where four people were injured, Harmon said.

In a news release, Harmon said police believe “that a group of people met in the parking (lot) of the (Wal-Mart) for an altercation, and that is when at least one person started shooting.”

“No Walmart employees or customers were injured in this incident,” Harmon said.

Updated at 9:45 a.m.: Four people were shot and hospitalized, according to Williamson County EMS officials.

A fifth person, the suspected shooter, was also hospitalized for evaluation, EMS officials said.

Earlier: Multiple people have been hospitalized this morning after a shooting in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart in Cedar Park, police said.

An unidentified suspect is in custody following what police described as an altercation that occured about 4:30 a.m. in the parking lot of the store off U.S. 183 and FM 1431.

“The store is shut down, but that’s Wal-Mart’s doing, until our investigation in the parking lot is done,” said Cedar Park Police Capt. Mike Harmon.

Harmon said police were unsure how many victims were hospitalized or how the altercation began. No store employees were injured or involved, Harmon said.

Correction: An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that five people had been shot. Four people were shot, but five people, including the suspected shooter, were hospitalized.

Don't find a picture of him, but the name appears to be Nigerian...🙄

 

[EagleKeeper]

Someone pissed that he did not get his scam $$

 

[Texashiker]

LA and new orleans have been a battlefield for 30 years, and nobody cared.

All of a sudden every shooting incident makes the news.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

LA and new orleans have been a battlefield for 30 years, and nobody cared.

All of a sudden every shooting incident makes the news.

don't forget detroit and wash dc

 

[Lounatik]

Does anybody at all care? Fluck, no, but maybe someone.

Peace


Lounatik

 

[mmntech]

IF the gangbangers only shot each other...I'd agree with you. They're doing a public service...but all too often, they shoot innocent bystanders with their "point and spray" method of shooting.
(plus the taxpayers get stuck with the cost of medical care for those who get shot and survive.)

It's why they need marksmanship training. :sneaky:

 

[Red Squirrel]

This is getting pretty bad. Probably a copy cat from what recently happened in Toronto.

It's getting to a point where it's barely safe to go out anymore. Guess it's all a game of odds though. The odds of this happening to any one person is slim so you just continue on not thinking about it. At least that's what I do, and I live in an area where this stuff never happens so I don't even worry.

 

[MrPickins]

This is getting pretty bad. Probably a copy cat from what recently happened in Toronto.

It's getting to a point where it's barely safe to go out anymore. Guess it's all a game of odds though. The odds of this happening to any one person is slim so you just continue on not thinking about it. At least that's what I do, and I live in an area where this stuff never happens so I don't even worry.

Did you read, the articles? They had met up at the Wal-Mart to fight. This wasn't a random thing...

That said, i don't know why they would meet there to fight. Williamson County/Cedar Park officers patrol that are pretty well (you don't fuck around in Will-Co).

 

[leper84]

Did you read, the articles? They had met up at the Wal-Mart to fight. This wasn't a random thing...

That said, i don't know why they would meet there to fight. Williamson County/Cedar Park officers patrol that are pretty well (you don't fuck around in Will-Co).

Yea but there's also a bunch of section 8 type housing hidden around here. So go figure some shit like this was bound to happen.