FOG BLOG U.S. NEWS LOG: MANAGER AT A VIRGINIA WALMARK SHOOTS AND KILLS 6!

The Walmart manager who killed 6 people ‘just started spraying’ bullets in the break room, employee says The manager of a Virginia Walmart who killed six people and himself and injured several others in a Tuesday night massacre has been identified as 31-year-old Andre Bing, the city of Chesapeake said on Twitter.

“He was armed with one handgun and had multiple magazines on his person,” the city said.

Bing was an “overnight team lead” and had been employed with Walmart since 2010, the company said in a statement.

Authorities were working Wednesday to identify any more witnesses to the violence and were also digging into the shooter’s background for information on what could have motivated the attack, police said in a news release.

At least 50 people were inside the Walmart when the violence erupted, police said. Some of them have begun publicly sharing their accounts of how a calm night turned into a horrifying tragedy. he violence marks yet another mass shooting in a place traditionally seen as safe – from schools to hospitals to stores.

Just 170 miles west of Chesapeake, a 22-year-old student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville allegedly opened fire on fellow students this month, killing three of them on a bus returning to campus from a field trip to Washington, DC.

Last weekend, a 22-year-old shot and killed five people at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and 19 others were injured, authorities said.

The US has suffered more than 600 mass shootings so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Both the non-profit and CNN define mass shootings as those in which four or more people are shot, not including the assailant.