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NASSAU COUNTY, N.Y. Police have arrested a suspect in connection with a shooting inside a manager’s office at a suburban New York grocery store Tuesday morning that left one person dead and two others wounded.
Gabriel DeWitt Wilson, 31, was taken into custody around 3:15 p.m. at an apartment building roughly 2 miles from the Stop & Shop grocery store in West Hempstead, in Nassau County on Long Island where the shooting occurred, Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said.
The shooting occurred around 11:15 a.m. inside offices upstairs from the shopping floor, Fox News reported.
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WEST HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) One person is dead and two others are injured after a shooting at a Stop & Shop on Long Island.
Police responded at around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday to the grocery store on Cherry Valley Avenue in West Hempstead.
Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said a 49-year-old employee was killed, and two others were hurt. The injured workers were conscious and speaking with investigators.
The shooter fled the scene, carrying a black handgun. He was last seen wearing a black sweatshirt, black baseball hat and black mask.
1 dead, 2 wounded in shooting at Stop & Shop supermarket in West Hempstead; suspect in custody
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Police have arrested the suspect accused of going into a Stop & Shop in West Hempstead and opening fire, killing one and wounding two.
Nassau County Executive Laura Curran tweeted out the update Tuesday afternoon.
The incident happened at the supermarket on Cherry Valley Road shortly after 11 a.m.
A 49-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene.
The other two victims were transported to an area hospital where they are recovering. I was in the store in the produce department, minding my business, doing my weekly shopping, and I heard what sounded like gun shots, but I never thought that anything like that would happen in the store, so I assumed it was something that just fell over in the service area, one shopper said.