VA - Chesapeake multiple people shot at Walmart, Nov 2022

[IceIce9]

Andre Bing, a team leader, started shooting employees in the break room.


Employee Briana Tyler said the overnight stocking team of 15 to 20 people had just gathered in the break room to go over the morning plan. She said the meeting was about to start, and a team leader said: “All right guys, we have a light night ahead of us,” when another team leader, who was identified by Walmart as Andre Bing, turned around and opened fire on the staff.

Walmart said in a statement that Bing was an overnight team leader and had been with the company since 2010.

Walmart manager opens fire in break room, killing 6

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — A Walmart manager opened fire on fellow employees in the break room of a Virginia store, killing six people in the country’s second high-profile mass shooting in four days, police and witnesses said Wednesday.

apnews.com

 

[tabitha111]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1595539082263797763

 

[tabitha111]

Photos of the victims here, there was also a 16 year old victim who is not named or pictured

Tragedy ‘hits home’: Chesapeake churches hold vigils in the wake of Walmart mass shooting

Six candles lining the altar near the pulpit flickered as community members wandered through the doors of Deep Creek United Methodist Church. Six candles for six victims. The house of worship was o…

www.dailypress.com

 

[Tricia]

11/23/22
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[Gemmie]

Sounds like a workplace shooting rather than terrorism, though workplace shootings are terrifying and tragic.

I agree that it was a workplace shooting. Likely (MOO) he held grudges over things unknown to us at this time. The gunman told an employee who had been on the job for only 5 days (not long enough to hate or want dead), after he'd already shot people and she was hiding under a table "Jessie, go home". That's about 4:15 in.

Hear what the Walmart shooter told this survivor | CNN

Jessie Wilczewski was an employee for only five days at Walmart in Chesapeake, VA, when a fellow employee opened fire in the store's break room. She recounts her horrifying experience to CNN's Erica Hill.

www.cnn.com

 

[Gemmie]

Virginia Walmart shooter was a longtime night manager who unnerved some employees, including a recent shouting match over unloading a truck, and covered his phone camera with tape bc he feared govt was watching him, co-workers tell me &

The Walmart Gunman, a Longtime Manager, Unnerved Some Co-workers (Published 2022)

Two former fellow employees said the gunman had feared that the government was watching him.

www.nytimes.com

Quoting your post to give you credit for finding the info in the article first, and adding a different link as not everyone can access NY Times articles (I can't). I don't think this isn't the exact NY Times article, but I see some of the same things in the small snippet that the NYT's allows non-subscribers to view.

Snippets:

Andre Bing, the suspected gunman who worked as a night shift team leader, could be gruff with fellow employees and expressed paranoid views about the government, according to interviews with coworkers.

“He said a lot of disturbing things,” said Donya Prioleau, who said she was in the employee break room when Bing entered and opened fire unexpectedly.

<modsnip - copyright violation - more than 10% quoted - please see the article>

Coworkers say Walmart shooter had exhibited odd and threatening behavior in the past | CNN

Several coworkers of the Walmart supervisor suspected of committing the deadly rampage inside a Chesapeake, Virginia, store said the shooter had exhibited odd and threatening behavior in the past.

www.cnn.com

 

[Marysmith]

Quoting your post to give you credit for finding the info in the article first, and adding a different link as not everyone can access NY Times articles (I can't). I don't think this isn't the exact NY Times article, but I see some of the same things in the small snippet that the NYT's allows non-subscribers to view.

Snippets:

Andre Bing, the suspected gunman who worked as a night shift team leader, could be gruff with fellow employees and expressed paranoid views about the government, according to interviews with coworkers.

“He said a lot of disturbing things,” said Donya Prioleau, who said she was in the employee break room when Bing entered and opened fire unexpectedly.

<modsnip - copyright violation - more than 10% quoted - please see the article>

Coworkers say Walmart shooter had exhibited odd and threatening behavior in the past | CNN

Several coworkers of the Walmart supervisor suspected of committing the deadly rampage inside a Chesapeake, Virginia, store said the shooter had exhibited odd and threatening behavior in the past.

www.cnn.com

This is disturbing… but what could have been done? I have and currently work with a very unstable person that we have to tiptoe around but what can we do, you know? It’s nothing that you could call police about. I guess that people could have told his family but it’s not like you know your co-worker’s families…

 

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[Laughing]

This is disturbing… but what could have been done? I have and currently work with a very unstable person that we have to tiptoe around but what can we do, you know? It’s nothing that you could call police about. I guess that people could have told his family but it’s not like you know your co-worker’s families…

Does your workplace have an Employee Assistance Program? Might be a place to ask for help with this problem?

Although, I suppose that a business the size of Wal-Mart does have such a program.

 

[Gemmie]

This is disturbing… but what could have been done? I have and currently work with a very unstable person that we have to tiptoe around but what can we do, you know? It’s nothing that you could call police about. I guess that people could have told his family but it’s not like you know your co-worker’s families…

One thing you could do is to try to find another job. I would definitely want to remove myself from having to be around a person like that. It just feels to me like people's mental health is deteriorating (MOO) and a some are like they are sitting on powder kegs about to go off. And then they do...

I wish you much luck in your current situation.

 

[Gemmie]

Does your workplace have an Employee Assistance Program? Might be a place to ask for help with this problem?

Although, I suppose that a business the size of Wal-Mart does have such a program.

Walmart does have such a program.

Walmart is launching Mental Health First Aid training that teaches associates how to identify, understand and respond to people who are struggling with mental health challenges. This four-hour training program, which will be available virtually and in-person at the Bentonville Walmart Home Office, will prepare associates to:

• Recognize signs and symptoms and provide direct assistance and support
• Properly reach out to emergency services on someone’s behalf
• Implement the Mental Health First Aid Action Plan
• Access emotional well-being benefits and resources

This is just the latest example of how we are reinforcing our commitment to the mental and emotional well-being of our associates.

Mental Health Awareness Month: Making Sure Our Associates Know They Are Never Alone

May is Mental Health Awareness Month in the U.S. For many of us, the last 24 months of living in the shadow of a global pandemic has brought prolonged isolation from our friends and colleagues and introduced new levels of anxiety and fear many of us have never experienced before. And considering...

corporate.walmart.com

Another article: Walmart Works to Prioritize Employee Mental Health

I don't know whether it was mandatory or not, but if it wasn't, I can see a lot of people not signing up for it unless there was some sort of monetary incentive that people felt was too good to turn down. MOO

 

[savagewoman]

Loved Ones Remember the Chesapeake Walmart Mass Shooting Victims: 'Awesome, Kind Individual'

Snippets...
Following the tragic mass shooting at a Chesapeake Walmart Tuesday night where six people were killed, those who knew the victims are remembering the lives lost.

On Wednesday, authorities confirmed the identities of five of the victims as Brian Pendleton, 38, Kellie Pyle, 52, Lorenzo Gamble, 43, Randy Blevins, 70, and Tyneka Johnson, 22.

One more victim's identity has not been made public because he was 16-years-old

The suspect, identified by Walmart as 31-year-old Andre Bing who was a manager at the store, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

In addition to the fatalities of the shooting, five people were also injured, with one being released from Sentara Norfolk General Hospital on Wednesday evening. Two people are still in critical condition as of Wednesday night, per Norfolk, Virginia's 13 News Now.

 

[acutename]

This is disturbing… but what could have been done? I have and currently work with a very unstable person that we have to tiptoe around but what can we do, you know? It’s nothing that you could call police about. I guess that people could have told his family but it’s not like you know your co-worker’s families…

notify HR- even anonymously

 

[sds71]

Vigil held in memory of 16-year-old mass shooting victim

Family, friends, and classmates gathered at the Chesapeake Walmart parking lot in memory of the youngest victim of Tuesday night’s mass shooting, 16-year-old Fernando Jesus Chavez.

www.wavy.com

 

[JnRyan]

We have more than one Walmart in Chesapeake so I was surprised that I really had to search to find out which one where this occurred. I have shopped at this location in years past, but since one has been built closer to the NC line I've been going to that one. I'm really at a loss as to why these occur.

 

[helpfulcharlie]

Walmart does have such a program.

Walmart is launching Mental Health First Aid training that teaches associates how to identify, understand and respond to people who are struggling with mental health challenges. This four-hour training program, which will be available virtually and in-person at the Bentonville Walmart Home Office, will prepare associates to:

• Recognize signs and symptoms and provide direct assistance and support
• Properly reach out to emergency services on someone’s behalf
• Implement the Mental Health First Aid Action Plan
• Access emotional well-being benefits and resources

This is just the latest example of how we are reinforcing our commitment to the mental and emotional well-being of our associates.

Mental Health Awareness Month: Making Sure Our Associates Know They Are Never Alone

May is Mental Health Awareness Month in the U.S. For many of us, the last 24 months of living in the shadow of a global pandemic has brought prolonged isolation from our friends and colleagues and introduced new levels of anxiety and fear many of us have never experienced before. And considering...

corporate.walmart.com

Another article: Walmart Works to Prioritize Employee Mental Health

I don't know whether it was mandatory or not, but if it wasn't, I can see a lot of people not signing up for it unless there was some sort of monetary incentive that people felt was too good to turn down. MOO

With the stigma attached to mental health, I could see a lot of people not signing up for it thinking it could lead to diminished employment prospects. As a direct aside, it's hard for me to imagine someone who tapes their phone camera "because they think the government's watching them" taking active steps to resolve mental health issues.

 

[sds71]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1596141677508710403

Police can also confirm that the suspect used a 9mm handgun. The gun was legally purchased from a local store on the morning of Tuesday, November 22, 2022. He had no criminal history.

 

[Elley Mae]

Andre Bing — the accused gunman behind six killings at a Chesapeake, Virginia Walmart where he worked — left a manifesto blaming the deadly violence on "torment" by coworkers and demonic influences.

Virginia Walmart gunman's manifesto claims he was 'betrayed' by coworkers he killed, felt 'led by' Satan

The manifesto left behind by Andre Bing — the suspected gunman behind six killings at a Chesapeake, Virginia, Walmart where he worked — has been released by Chesapeake police.

www.foxnews.com

"Sorry God, I've failed you, this was not your fault but my own. I failed to listen to the groans of the holy spirit which made me a poor representation of You," Bing wrote in a note released Friday by Chesapeake police.

"A few months back I had overheard [REDACTED] talking to [REDACTED] and he told me that he had been trying to get rid of me since day one. After I heard that I lashed out. The associates gave me twisted grins, mocked me and celebrated my down fall the last day. That's why they suffer the same fate as me."

He closed the screed by claiming he was a "loving" person and saying that what he had wanted to find a wife but that he "didn't deserve one."

….

Tormented individual he was.

Is this paranoid schizophrenia?

Not familiar with different mental illnesses.


TIA

 

[Gemmie]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1596141677508710403

Police can also confirm that the suspect used a 9mm handgun. The gun was legally purchased from a local store on the morning of Tuesday, November 22, 2022. He had no criminal history.

Makes me wonder if the redacted name of the person he spared was Jessie since he did spare her by saying "Jessie, go home". She's the gal that was there for only 5 days before this went down. Not long enough to from an opinion of him like his other workmates did, so she very likely didn't pick on him like the others so wasn't bad in his mind, and didn't deserve to die. All MOO

I do hope she gets the help she needs as what she experienced was extremely jarring. I hope she can end up finding peace and be able to put this behind her, as hard as that may be to do.

 

[Gemmie]

I have an off-the-wall question. Since he killed people, and he blamed his parents for ignoring the signs of his social deficits... can they be held responsible for the deaths since he is now dead and he cannot be held responsible?