At least 1 dead, 2 wounded
A man wearing all black walked into an upstairs office area of a Long Island Stop & Shop late Tuesday morning and shot three people, killing one of them, in the town of West Hempstead before fleeing the scene, Nassau County police officials say. That man is alleged to have been Wilson, police say. He is believed to have had a small handgun.
It wasn t immediately clear if the victims were targeted in some way. The one who died was a 49-year-old man. Two other victims were taken to area hospitals; their identities haven t been released and the nature of their injuries wasn t known.
1 dead, 2 injured in shooting at Long Island Stop & Shop
By FOX 5 NY Staff
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Supermarket shooting
Police say an employee shot three coworkers at a Stop and Shop supermarket in West Hempstead, killing a 49-year-old manager.
NEW YORK - A gunman shot three workers at a Stop & Shop supermarket in West Hempstead, Long Island, on Tuesday, killing one of them.
Authorities say the suspect, Gabriel Dewitt Wilson, 31, who works at the store, was arrested after a manhunt.
Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder says the shooting happened inside a manager s office at about 11 a.m. upstairs from the shopping floor.
1 killed, 2 wounded in a grocery shooting in West Hempstead, New York, police say
Investigators are looking for a man they believe shot three people Tuesday killing one in a manager’s office of a grocery store on Long Island, police said.
The shooting happened on an upper level of a Stop & Shop grocery in the community of West Hempstead, New York, while a couple hundred people were inside the store, police said.
Gabriel DeWitt Wilson is someone “we believe is the shooter,” Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said.
“He left the scene, and he was witnessed still carrying the handgun,” Ryder told reporters.
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