Supermarket worker kills six colleagues then himself

A WALMART employee opened fire in the supermarket’s staff room, killing six before turning the gun on himself.

Witnesses said the assailant, said to have been a manager at the store in Chesapeake, Virginia, shot colleagues at a preshift meeting. Survivors claimed the gunman, who has not been named publicly, ‘always had a problem with staff’.

He killed himself before police arrived, minutes after the attack began just after 10pm on Tuesday. Employee Briana Tyler told Good Morning America he was the one to ‘look out for’.

‘There was always something going on with him just having an issue with someone,’ she said. ‘As soon as my team lead said, “all right, we have a light night tonight”, I looked up and my manager just opened the door and he opened fire.’

‘He wasn’t aiming at anybody specifically. He just started shooting throughout the entire break room and I watched multiple people just drop down to the floor. He didn’t say a word.’

Employee Jessie Wilczewski said the gunman had told her to go home. Yesterday President Biden issued a statement calling for stricter gun laws.