Officers kill gunman in Walmart attack

Heroic actions by a Walmart employee and law enforcement officers kept a gunman who shot and injured one female employee from doing more harm, police in Evansville, Ind., said Friday.

The woman was the only person injured late Thursday when Ronald Ray Mosley II, 25, walked into a store break room where employees were meeting, aimed at the victim and shot her in the face with a 9mm handgun.

Shorty later, another female employee fled the room and called 911. That employee then saw the shooter leave the room, and she ran back in, helped the victim into another room and locked the door. Police Chief Billy Bolin called the employee a hero and credited her with saving the victim’s life.

“I have no doubt that he was going back to finish what he started and we would probably have a dead victim today instead of one that’s alive,” Bolin said at a press conference Friday.

Police Sgt. Anna Gray said officers were within the building within four minutes of the 911 call, and Mosley was shot and killed by officers who tracked him down shortly thereafter. They were assisted by Vanderburgh County sheriff ’s deputies. No officers were injured. There were about about 80 shoppers and employees in the store at the time.

Bolin said that Mosley left a suicide note and intended to die that night.

The shooting was not the first criminal incident involving Mosley at the store. He was fired from the store after being charged with four misdemeanor counts of battery last May after he attacking four co-workers. The case was eventually deferred to Vanderburgh County’s mental health court and he had pleaded guilty to the charges, Vanderburgh County Prosecutor Diana Moers said.