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Two killed in Kentucky supermarket, which appears to be a racially-motivated shooting.
Two people have been killed after a shooting at a Kroger Co supermarket near Louisville, Kentucky, local media reported Wednesday.
The shooting was reported around 3 p.m. (1900 GMT) at the grocery store in Jeffersontown, about 15 miles (24 km) from downtown Louisville, according to CBS affiliate WLKY-TV.
Multiple witnesses told WAVE they heard two bursts of gunfire inside the supermarket before they saw two men exchanging gunfire outside in the parking lot.
A gunman walked into the supermarket and shot a man dead then left the store and killed a woman in the parking lot, police said.
An armed bystander exchanged gunfire with the suspect in the lot of the Jeffersontown store before the shooter fled in a car. He was taken into custody soon afterwards, Jeffersontown Police Chief Sam Rogers said at a news briefing outside the store. There were no further injuries, he said.
The victims appeared to have been random and police did not offer a motive for the shooting that took place around 2:30 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT) at a Kroger Co supermarket about 15 miles (24 km) from downtown Louisville, Rogers said.
"It does appear she was a random victim out in the parking lot," said Rogers. Asked if the male victim in the store was also killed at random, Rogers said. "It does appear to be possibly the case."
Steve Zinninger told Wave3 News that his father was waiting outside the supermarket while his mother shopped inside when he heard shooting and saw panicked people running from the store.
Zinninger said the shooter casually walked toward his father in the parking lot and his father drew his gun and confronted the man from behind his car.
"He (the armed man) said, ‘please don’t shoot and I won’t shoot you,’ whites don’t kill whites,” Zinninger told Wave3 News. Wave3 News reported that the female victim was black.
"Thanks to the quick response of the local police department, the suspect was apprehended and our store is secure," Kroger said in a statement.
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