DETAILS EMERGE IN GROCERY SHOOTING
COLLIERVILLE, TENN.» The gunman in Thursday’s mass shooting at a Tennessee supermarket, identified by police as UK Thang, worked in a sushi business at the store, and was the son of refugees from Myanmar who had settled in Nashville, a family friend said.
Police have described Thang as a “third-party vendor” who worked at the grocery store on a daily basis. He died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound within a couple of minutes of officers arriving at the Kroger in the upscale suburb outside of Memphis.
The victims included 10 employees and five customers, police said. On Friday, some of the wounded were still in critical condition and fighting for their lives, Collierville Police Chief Dale Lane said.
Lane identified the woman who was killed as Olivia King. Friend Maureen Fraser said King was a widowed mother of three grown sons.