2 dead in shooting at Walmart in Mississippi

SOUTHAVEN, Miss. — A gunman described as a disgruntled Walmart employee fatally shot two co-workers and wounded a police officer before he was shot and arrested Tuesday morning at a Walmart store in northern Mississippi, authorities said.

DeSoto County District Attorney John Champion said 39-year-old Martez Tarrell Abram shot a Southaven police officer, who was protected by a bulletproof vest and suffered minor injuries. Southaven Police Chief Macon Moore said a second Southaven officer shot Abram, who underwent surgery.

Both the people killed were Walmart employees, Moore said. Employees told The Associated Press that the first was shot in the parking lot, and the second was shot inside the store.

Abram had been suspended from the store in recent days after he showed a knife to a co-worker. A police report had been filed, but Champion said Abram didn’t appear to have threatened the coworker and criminal charges weren’t being pursued.

Dillinger’s body to be exhumed

INDIANAPOLIS — The body of notorious 1930s gangster John Dillinger is expected to be exhumed in September from a concreteencased grave at an Indianapolis cemetery more than 85 years after he was killed by FBI agents outside a Chicago theater.

The exhumation could put to rest conspiracy theories suggesting that the violent criminal some considered a folk hero during the height of the Great Depression isn’t buried in his marked grave.

Alleged phony pharmacist filled 745,000 prescriptions

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Authorities have charged Kim Thien Le with impersonating a pharmacist and illegally filling more than 745,000 prescriptions in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prosecutors say that from late 2006 through 2017, Le — who didn’t have a pharmacist license — used the license numbers of registered pharmacists to dispense more than 100,000 prescriptions for opioids such as fentanyl, morphine and codeine.