A shooting at a supermarket in Tennessee has left one person dead and at least a dozen others injured, The New York Times reports.
The incident took place on Thursday at 1:30 p.m. inside a Kroger store in Collierville, Tennessee. The gunman also shot and killed himself, according to police. When officers arrived on the scene, they searched every aisle of the store to find and aid victims and help employees evacuate.
Collierville police chief Dale Lane said that some of the workers had hidden in freezers and offices, calling the shooting “the most horrific event that has occurred in Collierville history.”
Memphis police arrived to assist the Collierville Police Department, as Collierville is about 30 miles east of Memphis.
Lane didn’t divulge whether or not the attacker was a store employee.
Kroger supermarkets have been the sites of shootings before. In 2018, a white man fatally shot two Black people at a Kroger in Jeffersontown, Kentucky. The man, Gregory Bush, pleaded guilty but mentally ill to the racially motivated murders and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
In August, a person opened fire in the parking lot of a Krogers in Sandy Springs, Georgia, which led to the death of one person and the injury of a second person. The attack was connected to a mishandled drug deal.
