A SWAT team shot and killed a man who allegedly took hostages at a Walmart in Amarillo, TX Tuesday. According to the Amarillo Police Department, the suspect is a Somali man identified as Mohammed Moghaddam and they found an empty holster and notes with Arabic writing in his vehicle. No one else in the store was reported to have been harmed.
Police said there appears to be no link to Sunday’s mass shooting in Orlando and that at this time there is no reason to believe that this was any act of terrorism or in any way linked to a political ideology. Police said they are classifying the incident as an instance of workplace violence.
Nothing to see here, folks.
Employees of nearby businesses went on lockdown and reported a massive police response.
“Over here, we’re good,” she said, “but over there, they have two bomb squad trucks and ambulances and everything. Kind of crazy. No one has been hurt or shot. Now I do see a couple of the people from the bomb squad running around so I’m thinking they’re trying to get around the whole building, to surround it.”
Flores said things happened all of a sudden. “I turned around and all of a sudden everyone, their cars, everyone’s running, I don’t know because we didn’t hear anything over here. We locked all the doors here in the store. The only people I’m allowed to let in are cops or people that are already in here, just in case they run out of the store, because you never know.”
Note to would-be jihadis: A Walmart in Amarillo, TX is the opposite of a “soft target.”
https://ricochet.com/police-kill-suspect-apparent-hostage-situation-amarillo-tx-walmart/
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[–] PrinceRandom ago
This is in my area, and if there hadn't already been the Orlando shooting on the news, I doubt this would've made it past the local level as far as coverage goes. It was just a wacky nig pissed at not getting a promotion. He fired a couple of shots into the ceiling and held a couple of people in the office. One got out and the cops saw their chance and did their jobs. Bang. Goodified. If he had tried to go nuts and shot up the whole store, I have no doubt that some good ol' boy would've done the cops' job for them.