{"id":20469,"date":"2023-11-21T01:42:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T07:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=20469"},"modified":"2023-11-21T20:57:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T02:57:28","slug":"gunman-wounds-4-kills-himself-at-ohio-walmart-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=20469","title":{"rendered":"Gunman wounds 4, kills himself at Ohio Walmart, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A gunman opened fire at a southwestern Ohio Walmart on Monday night, wounding four people and then apparently killing himself, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The man \u201cwalked into the Walmart in Beavercreek around 8:35 p.m. Monday and began firing a gun,\u201d police&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BeavercreekOHPD\/posts\/pfbid026y1uR53HTWkXxZmKTyv95JswacBL5JMwNwSC46HsPsc1YU7vrPtA95SLr1mZN379l\">said in a statement<\/a>&nbsp;on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The gunman died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, and no responding officers fired their weapons, police said in the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The identity of the suspect was not immediately released. The conditions of the four injured people were unknown, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have no motive yet, no information on what he may have been thinking, or anything else,\u201d Beavercreek Police Capt. Scott Molnar told reporters at the scene. \u201cWe\u2019re still looking into it. It\u2019s very, very early in the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, the FBI and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were on the scene assisting, Molnar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Walmart said it was heartbroken. &#8220;This remains a developing situation, and we\u2019re working closely with investigators on the scene,&#8221; a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Beavercreek is a city of around 46,000 east of Dayton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/gunman-wounds-4-kills-self-ohio-walmart-police-say-rcna126114\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gunman opened fire at a southwestern Ohio Walmart on Monday night, wounding four people and then apparently killing himself, police said. The man \u201cwalked into the Walmart in Beavercreek around 8:35 p.m. Monday and began firing a gun,\u201d police&nbsp;said in a statement&nbsp;on social media. The gunman died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[24363,24362,2193,1830,2725],"class_list":["post-20469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-died-of-self-inflicted-wounds","tag-four-injured","tag-gunman","tag-ohio","tag-walmart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20511,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20469\/revisions\/20511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}