13 Shot and one dead. One more injured from concrete chip to eye.
I don't know if the shooter is in that number of dead, but better him than his victims. I find it strange how so many of these mass random killers will shoot themselves after carrying out their crime.
Collierville police say 13 people shot, 2 dead in Kroger shooting. Shooter dead after self-inflicted gunshot wound
Thirteen people were shot and one killed in what Police Chief Dale Lane called “the most horrific event that’s occurred in Collierville history.”
The shooter is also dead, killed by a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Lane said.
Law enforcement are still working some active scenes, including waiting on equipment to search the shooter’s car and some property of the shooter.
Part of the ongoing investigation is the shooter’s connection to Kroger, Lane said.
“It’s with a broken heart that I have to stand before you today,” Lane said. “Please keep the families in your prayers.”
Dispatchers received the call of an active shooter situation at the Kroger located at 240 New Byhalia Rd. at 1:30 p.m. The first police car arrived on scene at 1:34, Lane said, and officers began clearing the Kroger, aisle to aisle and room to room. Lane said he did not know how many people were in the store at the time of the shooting, but that there were quite a few witnesses.
“We found people hiding in freezers and in locked offices,” Lane said. “They were doing what they had been trained to do. Run, hide, fight. I hate that we had to do it here.”
One Kroger employee was rescued from the roof, he said.
Lane would not describe what kind of weapon the shooter had.
A spokesperson for Regional One Health said the hospital was expecting patients and would provide more information when more details about patient numbers and patient conditions were available.
A spokesperson for the Baptist Memorial Health Care system said one person had been brought to a Baptist hospital in relation to the Collierville shooting.
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital has no patients in the hospital from the scene and is not aware of any patients planning to arrive, spokesperson David Henson told The Commercial Appeal at 2:30pm.
The Memphis Police Department assisted with securing the perimeter and scene, the department said on social media.
A shelter-in-place on all Collierville Schools was lifted under consultation from the Collierville Police Department that the scene is secure. The schools are proceeding with normal operations of dismissal. Glenda McDonald, who works in Kroger's floral department, said she was not injured but was shaken.
McDonald said she walked out of the back office to the floral counter when she heard something that sounded like a gunshot. "I just ran out the door," McDonald said. "I left my purse, my keys, everything."
She said she is not sure how many people were injured, but she believed she saw a bagger and some customers get shot before fleeing.
Manny Reis, 49, was driving down Poplar just as police began to arrive on the scene:
"Tons and tons of cop cars flying towards the back entrance of the Kroger on the street that runs behind it and they blocked it all off, and then they're all opening up their trunks and grabbing shotguns. And then they all started swarming around," Reis said.
Outside of the Kroger he said he saw someone without a shirt that was carried away by four paramedics on the scene.
"There were some people out. There was somebody without a shirt on," Reis said. "So I don't know if that person got injured, was shot I don't know. I know at one point I did see them basically, like four people go over to that person and pick that person up and carry them away from that area."
He also said that they grabbed him by each of his limbs to carry him away.
Germantown City Administrator Patrick Lawton said Germantown fire and police department personnel had been deployed to assist in Collierville.
Collierville police say 13 people shot, 2 dead in Kroger shooting. Shooter dead after self-inflicted gunshot wound
A shelter-in-place on all Collierville Schools was lifted under consultation from the Collierville Police Department that the scene is secure. The schools are proceeding with normal operations of dismissal.
So schools 10-20 miles away were locked down?!
"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."-- Thomas Jefferson
Who's a twitter user, that thing usually has someone with a cell phone posting recent events on it.
Nothing says self reliance like depending on the other guy.
Yeah, when it comes to that twitter stuff................I'll continue to rely on others.
Self reliance?
Ha, no man is an island and alla that crap.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)