A second employee has died a day after the “targeted” mass taking pictures at an Ohio cosmetics warehouse, officers stated Thursday — because the suspected gunman is due in courtroom.
Shakhar Chapagai, 30, was pronounced lifeless late Wednesday at a Columbus hospital, a day after being hit at work in New Albany, about 15 miles northeast of the state capital, Columbus, WCMH reported. A staffer who was pronounced lifeless on the scene has but to be formally recognized.
4 different staff have been additionally wounded. Their circumstances weren’t identified Thursday.
Accused gunman Bruce Reginald Foster III, 28, took a rideshare away from the massacre simply earlier than cops acquired there, New Albany Police Chief Greg Jones stated.
He was lastly discovered at an residence in Columbus on Wednesday, about 12 hours after the carnage, and subdued with a stun gun when he refused to give up, based on Chief Deputy US Marshal Dan Deville.
Though Foster later talked to investigators, Jones, the police chief, stated he “wouldn’t call him fully cooperative.”
Police have but to find out a motive and stated they didn’t obtain any “reports of an altercation beforehand or afterward.”
Nevertheless, the police chief has stated “it appears at this point to be a targeted type of attack.”
“It does appear that there was a contact between a victim and the shooter,” Jones stated, with out elaborating on precisely what. “At this point, I don’t have a clear picture of how involved that contact was.”
Foster is due in courtroom Thursday afternoon on a felony aggravated homicide cost. Officers have stated additional fees are seemingly. Court docket information didn’t checklist an lawyer who may communicate on his behalf.
There have been about 150 staff contained in the constructing on the time of the taking pictures who have been evacuated to a close-by constructing. A firearm was additionally recovered on the scene.
With Publish wires.
