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Police chief: 3 people killed in Oklahoma Walmart shooting

Continued from Front a statement offering
thoughts and prayers for
Stephens County District At- the family of the woman
torney Jason Hicks authori- killed in the shooting, who
ties said during the news she said had been with the
conference Monday after- company for less than two
noon that there was never months. Jenkins said the
an active shooter inside woman was at the Wal-
the store and he described mart during her free time
the shooting as an isolated and wasn’t scheduled to
incident. He did not further work that day.
explain. Duncan is about 80 miles
Hicks said the two victims (130 kilometers) south of
had been inside the Wal- Oklahoma City. The Wal-
mart Money Center, which mart is in a commercial
offers check-cashing, mon- center that includes a Law enforcement work the scene where two men and a woman were fatally shot Monday, Nov.
ey orders, tax preparation sporting goods store and 18, 2019, outside a Walmart store in Duncan, Okla.
and other services, before a dollar store along U.S. Associated Press
they were killed, but that Highway 81, the main road come amid a spate of high- before shooting himself in two people. And on Sun-
the shooter did not enter that passes through Dun- profile shootings across the the head. He died the next day, four people were killed
the business. can heading south toward U.S. A 16-year-old student day. and six wounded in Fresno,
Two bodies covered with Texas. at a high school in the city In New Jersey, players and California, where police
sheets were visible in the Aaron Helton, of Duncan, of Santa Clarita outside Los spectators ran for cover Fri- say two shooters sneaked
parking lot Monday after- said he was parking out- Angeles shot and killed two day night when a gunman into a backyard party and
noon. One body was in the side the Walmart where he classmates and wounded opened fire at a high school shot into a group of Hmong
driver’s seat of a red, two- planned to buy groceries three other teens Thursday football game, wounding family and friends.q
door car. The other body when he heard about nine
was lying on the ground gunshots.
next to the vehicle. “I arrived and there were
Bullet holes were visible in three bodies,” Helton said.
the car’s windshield. Po- Helton was one of many
lice said in a Facebook nearby witnesses who for-
post that a handgun was tunately was not hit by
found at the scene. At the gunfire, Ford said. The clos-
news conference, Ford de- est person was in a vehicle
scribed the gun as semi-au- three parking spaces away
tomatic but said he had no from where the victims sat,
further details. He said the Ford said.
Oklahoma State Bureau There were more than
of Investigation was still 100 vehicles in the park-
processing the scene. ing lot about two hours
Ford said he believed nine after the shooting plus a
shots were fired. steady stream of custom-
Authorities have not re- ers coming and going from
leased the identities of Walmart, which remained
those killed but did confirm open for business.
the shooter was among It was at least the third
the dead. Ford said all shooting at a Walmart in
three knew each other but the U.S. this year. A Wal-
declined to describe their mart store in El Paso, Texas,
relationships or other iden- reopened Thursday after
tifying information pending being closed since August,
notification of immediate when a gunman opened
family. fire in the busy store, kill-
He said all three were dead ing 22. Just days before,
when police arrived just two Walmart employees in
minutes after the shooting. Mississippi were killed by a
Walmart spokeswoman man authorities described
LeMia Jenkins initially said as a disgruntled Walmart
no staff were involved. worker.
Jenkins later released The killings in Oklahoma