GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A man armed with a shotgun shot
one
person outside a North Carolina law firm Friday
before
darting across a busy street
and wounding three others outside a Wal-Mart
before officers subdued him, police said.
Officers
confronted the man
outside the store and caught up with him
behind a nearby Toys "R" Us.
He
fired at them
and
they shot multiple rounds back,
wounding
the gunman,
said
Greenville Police Chief Hassan Aden.
The
suspect was expected to survive
as well as the four others he's accused of
shooting,
Aden
said.
The
gunman's first target
was
seated in his car outside the Kellum Law Firm
on
the city's south side, Aden said at a news conference.
The
firm's main office in New Bern declined comment.
Kellum
has nine personal injury offices in the eastern part of the state.
the first victim down when he arrived
on
the scene at the Kellum Law Firm.
The
suspect crossed
five lanes of
traffic
after the Kellum shooting
and injured the three others
before
he was caught, Aden said.
Police are still trying to determine the
shooter's
identity
and motive.
He
is in police custody at a local hospital, Aden said
.
The
victims are all
in
operating rooms
at
local hospitals, Aden said.
He
didn't give specifics
on their conditions
or their names and ages.
The
shooter was using
a "pistol-grip shotgun"
with
an unknown number of rounds, Aden said.
He
had a bag filled with ammunition, Aden said.
"He
had enough to really do some
significant
damage,"
the
chief said.
Aden
said officers responded
within
mere minutes
of the shooting calls, WNCT reported.
He
added that their training
in
mass shootings,
"likely
prevented a larger crime scene
with
multiple, multiple victims."
Aden
said police are still sifting
through
video footage of the scene.
Greenville
is about 85 miles east of Raleigh.
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