The gunman in the deadly shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, bought the gun he used in the rampage legally hours before he opened fire on his co-workers, city officials said Friday.
Andre Bing, 31, bought the 9 mm handgun at a store Tuesday morning and killed six people that night, Chesapeake officials said. Police found the gunman dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in the store's break room, where the shooting unfolded, officialsPolice have identified the victims as: Brian Pendleton, 38; Kellie Pyle, 52; Lorenzo Gamble, 43; and Randy Blevins, 70, who were all from Chesapeake; and Tyneka Johnson, 22, of nearby Portsmouth.
"I don't think he had many people to fall back on in his personal life," said Nathan Sinclair, who worked at the Walmart for nearly a year before leaving earlier this month. Sinclair said he and the gunman did not get along. He was known for being"verbally hostile" to employees and wasn't particularly well-liked, Sinclair said. But there were times when the gunman was made fun of and not necessarily treated fairly.
On balance, the gunman seemed pretty normal to Janice Strausburg, who knew him from working at Walmart for 13 years before leaving in June.
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