I am in Collierville TN. I got a call from my wife that active shooters are on top of Kroger grocery store 400-500 yards away. We are locked and loaded sheltering in my office. Calls coming in that a active shooters are firing 400 yards away and there are casualties. I have not heard any shots Police helicopters overhead. Hear a few sirens but no other visible law enforcement. Traffic on main street in front of grocery still not shut down. I do not have a television feed
Please keep me updated if anyone sees any news reporting
I'm sure it's a hate filled, white, veteran, with a MAGA hat with one of those fully automatic assault rifle AR15s, equipped with a bump stock and a 100 round magazine.
Please keep me updated if anyone sees any news reporting
Collierville High School was put on lockdown after the shooting, but we have been told that the lockdown has been lifted and classes will dismiss as normal. School officials tell us they were told the threat is no longer active and the scene is secure.
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.
Is that a Big Foot sighting? I thought cameras on flip phones were even better than that. I have no idea what that weapon is, so we'll just have to wait for ol Uncle Joe Stalin to fill us in on the details tomorrow.
A Deli “chef” was fired this morning, he returned and unleashed his anger. Haven’t seen a picture of the perp as of yet, Collierville is a very nice stand alone city. A convoy of Police arrived on scene in 3 minutes! Not a squad car, a damn squadron. It nice to have police who aren’t preoccupied with BLM or mugging’ s on Main St. Sad situation, but much less carnage then it could have been.
Next door to my office Life flight choppers were landing in open area behind my office Story so far is sushi worker got fired. He went out to his car and came back in with a gun and started shooting He killed one and wounded 12. Five critical wounded. Then he shot himself. Man on top of building was an employee trying to escape.
Next door to my office Life flight choppers were landing in open area behind my office Story so far is sushi worker got fired. He went out to his car and came back in with a gun and started shooting He killed one and wounded 12. Five critical wounded. Then he shot himself. Man on top of building was an employee trying to escape.
Shame that a local CCW holder wasn't able to stop this before it started but at least the bad guy did everyone a favor and gave the families some closure and saved the tax payers some $$.
I have a friend who was in the store I haven’t spoken to him directly, but it seems he was shot in the foot. He had steel toe boots on. Don’t know if he was injured or not
Lady next to him was hit as well. I don’t know the extent of her injuries
No doubt, with all the witnesses, the news he was a deli/sushi "chef" there, and the fact he offed himself, they're still considering it an.................
active investigation
and can't release that information.
I like to depend on the other guy. Do you have a twitter account?
Shame that a local CCW holder wasn't able to stop this before it started but at least the bad guy did everyone a favor and gave the families some closure and saved the tax payers some $$.
We have constitutional carry basically in Tn now with stipulations that are common sense. Open and concealed.
Very very few people carry. IMO...
I would venture to say 1 out of 250 at least.
I am always worried about printing, the very little my G48 telegraphs..
I am always looking for printing on people, to a experienced eye it is 2nd nature. Honestly here in Clarksvegas since July I have seen 0 sign of concealed carry printing on anyone around here.
The 1 in 250 is probably way underestimated by me. That # is basically from the occasional open carry guy at rural king, LGS,s, and once in awhile academy or walmart.
We are basically a unarmed state going about their little hamster lives in the habitrail cage. IMO from what I see daily.
I have a friend who was in the store I haven’t spoken to him directly, but it seems he was shot in the foot. He had steel toe boots on. Don’t know if he was injured or not
Lady next to him was hit as well. I don’t know the extent of her injuries
I have a friend who was in the store I haven’t spoken to him directly, but it seems he was shot in the foot. He had steel toe boots on. Don’t know if he was injured or not
Lady next to him was hit as well. I don’t know the extent of her injuries
You can tell your buddy, "Now see that's why you carry everywhere you go."