Female suspect, 3 dead
ABERDEEN, Md. — An employee at a Rite Aid warehouse opened fire at work Thursday, killing three people before taking her own life, authorities said. Several other people were wounded.
The suspect was a 26-yearold temporary employee at the Rite Aid distribution center in Perryman, Md., Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said at a news conference. The sheriff ’s office said in a tweet a short time later that she had been identified as Snochia Moseley of Baltimore County.
It appears only one weapon was used — a 9 mm Glock handgun that was registered in Moseley’s name — and no shots were fired by responding law enforcement officers, Gahler said. He said authorities don’t know her motive. She died at a hospital from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, he said.
Krystal Watson, 33, said her husband, Eric, works at the facility and told her that the suspect had been arguing with somebody else near a time clock after a “Town Hall meeting.” “And she went off,” she said. “She didn’t have a particular target. She was just shooting,” “She didn’t aim. She just shot,” Watson said.
Area hospitals reported receiving five patients from the incident. Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore said it was treating four patients with gunshot wounds. Two were in stable condition and two who were seriously injured.
A spokesman for a health system that includes Christiana Hospital in Newark, Del., said one patient was being treated and was in serious condition.
Gahler said the call about shots fired came in at about 9:06 a.m. and deputies and other officers were on the scene in just over five minutes.
He said the suspect had reported for the work day as usual, and around 9 a.m. the shooting began outside the business and continued inside.
Mike Carre, an employee of a furniture logistics operation next to the distribution center, said he helped tend to a wounded man.
Carre locked the doors of his workplace after the injured man came hobbling in, bleeding from his leg. He called 911 from a bathroom before helping colleagues wrap the man’s blood-soaked jeans above his injury to cut off blood flow.
Carre said the man told him the shooter “just came in in a bad mood this morning. He said she’s usually nice. But today, I guess it wasn’t her day. She just came in to pick a fight with someone.
“She pulled out a gun and she just started shooting at her coworkers.”