# 7 dead, including shooter, in mass shooting in Chesapeake, VA Walmart (Nov 22, 2022) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 23, 2022, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-dead-including-shooter-in-mass-shooting-in-chesapeake-va-walmart-nov-22-2022/975437 "2022-11-23T13:39:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2022, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-dead-including-shooter-in-mass-shooting-in-chesapeake-va-walmart-nov-22-2022/975437/1 "2022-11-23T13:39:15Z")
> **[A gunman opened fire in a Virginia Walmart late Tuesday night, police say,...](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/6-people-and-the-suspect-are-dead-after-shooting-at-a-walmart-in-chesapeake-virginia-police/ar-AA14rzTZ)** > > Police said six people and the suspect were dead after the shooting. Police responded to a call at the Walmart at around 10 p.m. on Tuesday night. This one hits very close to home for me. For about a year, my family and I lived in a hotel very close to that Walmart, which is across the street from a Golden Corral. We used to go in there all the time. We’ve gone in there fairly recently, probably. It’s not all _that_ far from Suffolk; it’s just on the opposite side of the river. Police are saying the shooter was a manager. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2022, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-dead-including-shooter-in-mass-shooting-in-chesapeake-va-walmart-nov-22-2022/975437/2 "2022-11-23T15:10:18Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Police are saying the shooter was a manager. As do survivors. [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/7-people-dead-including-shooter-at-walmart-shooting-in-virginia-police/ar-AA14rxOE](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/7-people-dead-including-shooter-at-walmart-shooting-in-virginia-police/ar-AA14rxOE) > [@](#): > > Briana Tyler, an employee at the Walmart in Chesapeake, told ABC News that she and her coworkers were gathered in the break room at the start of their shifts when the shooting happened. > > “I looked up and my manager just opened the door and he just opened fire,” Tyler recalled during an interview Wednesday on “Good Morning America.” Apparently this guy had issues. > [@](#): > > Tyler told ABC News that she had heard from other employees when she first started working there about two months ago that “he was the manager to look out for because there was always something going on with him, just having an issue with someone.” ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2022, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-dead-including-shooter-in-mass-shooting-in-chesapeake-va-walmart-nov-22-2022/975437/3 "2022-11-23T15:49:20Z")
It’s not a joke when I say that maybe the stress of the upcoming black Friday pushed him over the edge. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2022, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-dead-including-shooter-in-mass-shooting-in-chesapeake-va-walmart-nov-22-2022/975437/4 "2022-11-23T18:53:02Z")
About a week ago, at a different Walmart, the one nearest us, a manager was having a meeting with several of her employees in, of all places, the cart return in the interior vestibule. There must have been 10 or 15 employees there, and easily 100 customers witnessed this meeting in passing. Anyway, this was a come-to-Jesus meeting. Apparently some employees had been spending their shifts just sitting in their cars instead of working, and the manager said, “If I catch you doing that, I’ll get ya.” I wonder how many employees involved in that meeting are now looking at her askance after a manager shot and killed six people at a store less than an hour away. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2022, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-dead-including-shooter-in-mass-shooting-in-chesapeake-va-walmart-nov-22-2022/975437/5 "2022-11-23T20:12:18Z")
This could have been much worse. > **[Walmart shooting suspect was found with handgun, multiple ammo magazines](https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/23/andre-bing-walmart-shooting-employee/)** > > Andre M. Bing had worked at Walmart since 2010 and was an overnight supervisor at the store in Chesapeake, company officials said. Dunno if people will run into a paywall there; I didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2022, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-dead-including-shooter-in-mass-shooting-in-chesapeake-va-walmart-nov-22-2022/975437/6 "2022-11-25T18:08:41Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Apparently this guy had issues. > > > [@](#): > > > > Tyler told ABC News that she had heard from other employees when she first started working there about two months ago that “he was the manager to look out for because there was always something going on with him, just having an issue with someone.” If this is true, and I think it probably is, I wonder if he has any kind of paper trail of complaints that will bite Walmart in the ass. Keeping a manager for 12 years when he has anger problem complaints is certainly going to up Walmart’s responsibility here. I know they were going to be sued anyway, but this would certainly add a couple of numbers to the judgement for the families. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-dead-including-shooter-in-mass-shooting-in-chesapeake-va-walmart-nov-22-2022/975437/7 "2022-11-29T07:06:47Z")
I live in Charlottesville, which endured a mass shooting just a week or so before this one. So when this story hit the wires, I briefly misread “Chesapeake” as “Charlottesville” and wondered what in the name of God was going on around here. Then I read it correctly and was quite relieved that this charming little college town hadn’t suddenly turned into the O.K. Corral. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2022, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-dead-including-shooter-in-mass-shooting-in-chesapeake-va-walmart-nov-22-2022/975437/8 "2022-11-29T22:09:23Z")
Walmart being sued for keeping the nutcase. > **[A survivor of the Virginia mass shooting files a $50 million lawsuit against...](https://www.npr.org/2022/11/29/1139747362/a-survivor-of-the-virginia-mass-shooting-files-a-50-million-lawsuit-against-walm)** > > A Walmart employee who survived last week's mass shooting is suing the company for allegedly continuing to employ the shooter — a store supervisor — "who had known propensities for violence."