Three people were shot at a Long Island grocery store.Photo: CBS New York
Police in New York State have arrested a suspect accused of killing one person and injuring two others in a shooting spree at a grocery store on Long Island.
Gabriel DeWitt Wilson, 30, was taken into custody Tuesday in connection with the shooting, which took place at a Stop & Shop grocery store in West Hempstead.
Police had earlier described him as a “person of interest.”
“He left the scene, and he was witnessed still carrying the handgun,” Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said during a press conference Tuesday,CNNreports.
The shooting allegedly occurred in the manager’s office on the upper level of the store at about 11:19 a.m.
Store employees said they heard five to six gunshots near the manager’s office upstairs.
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“Incredibly frightening. Nobody knew what was going on. Just ran out the back of the store,” Kelly Egan, with the Local 342 union,told CBS2. “They’re all quite traumatized. When is this going to stop?”
Gabriel DeWitt Wilson.
Wilson had worked at the store but it is not clear if he was still working there,NBC4reports.
The motive is unclear.
A male victim, 49, was pronounced dead at the scene. The other two victims were transported to a local hospital.
“The subject has not been apprehended yet & we ask that area residents remain indoors,” Nassau County Police Departmenttweeted.
Anyone with information about the shooting should contact the Nassau County Police Crime Stoppers at 1-800-244- TIPS or call the Fifth Squad at 516-573-6552.
source: people.com
