At the Walmart parking lot in Oklahoma, shooting occurred: there are dead

On Monday, November 18, three people were killed in a shooting in a Walmart parking lot in Duncan, Oklahoma.

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“We can confirm there was a shooting in the Walmart parking lot,” Duncan police said in a statement. USA Today. — One woman and one man were killed in the car, one man outside the car. A handgun was found at the scene."

Duncan Police Department spokeswoman Tera Mathis said names, age, and other personal information regarding the victims are not available at this time.

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It is also unclear what exactly happened to the shooter. A local newspaper, citing the police, said that among the dead was the one who opened fire.

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According to Mathis, the local police department, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and the Stevens County Sheriff’s office took part in the investigation. She declined to comment on reports that the shooting was an act of domestic violence.

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For some time after the news of the shooting in the city, schools were closed, but later reopened. Cashier Austin Fenwick said that the Ace Hardware store, where he works, located about a block from Walmart, was notified of the incident, but he continues to operate normally.

“We're not on lockdown or anything, but we were told they were looking for a man in black clothing,” Fenwick said in a phone interview. - We are fine".

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Lynn Gregston, who owns Country Club Care’s nursing home across the street from Walmart, said authorities said the shooter committed suicide after shooting two other people.

“Everything is under control,” Gregston said, adding that the 72 residents at his facility are doing well. “We have blocked the entrances using our public address system.”

Duncan is a city of about 25 people in Stephens County, about 000 miles south of Oklahoma City.

The shooting occurred just a few days after the opening of Walmart in El Paso, Texas, where mass shooting occurred on 3 on August: as a result of an attack in the parking lot and inside the Cielo Vista mall 22 people died.

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