1 Person Injured in Black Friday Shooting at N.C. Walmart, Shooter Flees During Evacuation

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An altercation between two Walmart shoppers in North Carolina escalated to violence on the biggest shopping day of the year.

Lumberton Police Department (LPD)responded to reports of shots firedafter an incident between two people who knew each other at 11:26 a.m. on Black Friday (Nov. 25) at the Walmart Super Center on Fayetteville Rd., according to a press release from police.

Officers attempted to locate any shooters or victims as the store was being evacuated. Surveillance footage later showed the shooter slipping out during the evacuation.

The suspect has also been identified but his name is being withheld as investigators attempt to locate him.

The Black Friday shooting came hours before two others were wounded in another isolated incident two hours away at a mall in Greenville.

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Theodore Devon Dunn Jr., 21, and Irashamire Raashad Perkins, 22, were shot after they engaged in a fight with a person one of them knew, police said.

Both were transported to ECU Health Medical Center, where Perkins was still hospitalized and receiving treatment as of Saturday, while Dunn’s injuries are not considered life-threatening.

According to data from the Gun Violence Archive, 2022 is expected to be thesecond-highest year for mass shootingson record in the United States with 612 so far, compared to last year’s 690.

source: people.com