Police in Chesapeake (Virginia) reported this Friday that the murderer who shot six people in a Walmart shopping center last Monday legally bought the 9-millimeter pistol he used in the massacre just a day before in a store.
The man, who took his own life before the police arrived, left a text written on his cell phone, which he titled "Death Note" (death note, in Spanish) in which he accused colleagues of harassment and mockery ( something that the authorities have not confirmed at all).
In the note, released by the city of Chesapeake, the murderer says that they were planning to fire him from his job (he had been at Walmart for more than a decade, where he was a night manager), and he even explained why he decided to spare a colleague's life because her own mother, he wrote, had died of cancer.
A witness also revealed that the attacker did not shoot at random, but seemed to be choosing each of his victims and finishing off some of them when they were already on the ground to make sure they were dead.
Crime scene tape surrounds a car following a mass shooting at a Walmart store on Wednesday, November 23, 2022, in Chesapeake, Virginia.
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Jessica Wilczewski said a group of workers were meeting in a store break room Tuesday night when the killer walked in and opened fire.
While another witness described Bing shooting wildly, Wilczewski said
she observed him target certain people
.
“
The way he was acting, he was doing a hunt
,” Wilczewski told The Associated Press on Thursday.
“The way he looked at people's faces and the way he did what he did, he was choosing people,” he noted.
She also saw him shoot people who were already on the ground.
“What I do know is that she made sure that whoever she wanted dead was dead,” she said.
She “would come back and shoot dead bodies.
Making sure they were dead,” she recounted.
