Multiple fatalities in shooting at Walmart store in Virginia

Start with breaking news on this morning's show US police say

multiple

people have died in a

shooting

at a Walmart

store

in Virginia there have already been 600 mass

shooting

s in the US so far this year . iOS correspondent Martha Kellner is with us um Hi Martha, what else do we know? Good morning Kay, well this is another day, another mass shooting in America. This time it will be the city of Chesapeake in Virginia, on the east coast of the United States, that will wake up tomorrow morning to hear about the horrific bloodshed at Walmart. supermarket We still don't know the exact number of deaths, but we do know that there have been

multiple

deaths and multiple injuries inside that Walmart supermarket that you can see there in the last hour or so, the local Chesapeake police have been holding a press conference.

At the conference, the spokesperson said that they received the call around 10 and 10 p.m. and to inform them about reports of a shooting at that supermarket, police officers entered the

store

and said that over the course of 35 to Within 40 minutes officers found multiple dead and injured people in the store, said they had assembled tactical and rescue teams to enter and provide life-saving measures. Mr. Kaczynski, the spokesman, also said that officers were still searching for victims more than two hours after their arrival. At the scene he noted that it was a large store that had many hiding places for shoppers who had possibly sought shelter during the shooting.

People might get scared. He said we want to make sure everyone is accounted for. I think it's important at this moment to reflect on the staggering and horrific level of gun violence in America. I'm sure people have heard over the weekend of the shooting or on Saturday night at an LGBT nightclub in Colorado Springs in Colorado, five people were killed in that incident and 17 were injured. since then there have been five mass shootings plus mass shootings defined as incidents in which four or more people are injured or killed, not including the shooter, plus this is the 607th mass shooting in the United States this year, obviously there is still some time to also end armed violence. is steadily increasing in the United States year after year and whatever emerges from this event and I am sure that in the coming hours and days we will hear more about the motive of the shooter involved, we know that the shooter also died in this incident.

Whatever comes up we have to reflect or America has to reflect once again on what is a uniquely American problem: this staggering level of gun violence and perhaps the laws that perhaps allow this type of thing to happen on such a regular basis. here, yeah, so just to recap. For us, so please, Martha, several deaths were heard at this time, the gunman was also killed, we don't have the exact numbers as you said yet, although we don't have the exact numbers of the police officer who was handing that out. At the press conference he was asked if it was more than 10, he said he did not believe there were 10 deaths, but he did say that several people were found injured, including someone who appears to have been murdered, near the entrance of that store.

There's clearly a lot of speculation right now about the gunman's motives, whether it was a disgruntled employee, perhaps a disgruntled customer, or whether it was just a random event that a store picked at random, but we're a couple of days away from Thanksgiving holiday. right now clearly uh 10 10 p.m. at night is not a time when that store is as busy as other periods during the day, but this is an incredibly busy holiday period as they call it here just two days away from the Thanksgiving holiday, so there will be a quite a number of people that you would imagine inside that store even though it was about 45 minutes until closing, so I think we'll hear more, I think, at a Chesapeake Police Department press conference in the next few hours, but clearly the police are still on the scene there and until very recently they were still searching around that large supermarket looking for people who maybe had been trying to find a hiding place to escape the violence that was unfolding inside um it's okay for now , thank you.

Thank you very much so we're waiting to hear more information from police in the area, but what we heard looking at those photos of women. Up to 10 people died after a shooting at a Walmart, let's take a look at those photos. Again, we should, uh, let's look at those photos again, if in a Walmart, uh, we shoot up to 10 people, they're dead. We believe the gunman is also among the dead. This is in Chesapeake, Virginia, on the east coast of the United States. He says this story developed in the last half hour or so. US police say the gunman is dead and several shoppers inside that store around 10 p.m. also lost their lives as a result of this shooting.

More information and as soon as we do we will of course bring it to you here on Sky News.