UPDATED 1:35 p.m. ET: Scott Ostrem, a white man, was arrested Thursday morning. According toNBC News, police received a tip about Ostrem driving the same red vehicle he used to flee the scene of the deadly Walmart shooting Wednesday night. Ostrem was arrested roughly a half-mile from his home, wearing the same shirt seen in surveillance footage.
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A white man "nonchalantly" entered a Walmart in Thornton, Colorado Wednesday night and fatally shot three people. The man walked into the store around 6 p.m. local time and started randomly firing at customers and employees before fleeing the scene in a red vehicle, Reutersreported.
Thursday morning, the Thornton Police Department identified the suspect as Scott Ostrem. At the time of this writing, Ostrem remained at large.
"What we have determined is that it is random as of right now," Thornton Police Department spokesperson told reporters. "As witnesses stated, the person came in and just shot toward a group." Of those confirmed, two were men and one was a woman. The two men died at the scene. The woman died after being transported to a nearby hospital. One witness reported hearing as many as 30 gunshots, the sound of which another witness mistook for a balloon popping.
"A very sad night in Thornton," Mayor Heidi Williams said late Wednesday night in a statement. "My prayers go out to victim's families and loved ones. Thank you to large response from our neighbors."
Trump, always quick to label anyone who isn't white with words like "animal," had not commented on the Thornton shooting at the time of this article's publication. Early Thursday morning, Trump was still busy tweeting about 29-year-old Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, the man authorities say killed eight people in New York earlier this week.
