He then returned to the rear of the store where he killed himself, the release said. Cummings K-8 shooting: SCS board member reiterates that safety is the main priority. Listen: Collierville Fire Department dispatched shortly after reports of shooting at Kroger. King was a widowed mother of three grown sons.
A longtime Collierville resident, she was remembered as someone who was "rich in family" and in faith. According to the release, Thang had ammunition and extra loaded magazines on him when found by police. The three guns used were legally purchased from licensed gun dealers by Thang at different times over the past year and a half.
Thang had worked at Kroger since July Previously, he lived in Antioch, Tennessee, before moving to Collierville. When the shooting began Sept. One Kroger employee was rescued from the roof.
He said he got the steaks and was at the register checking out. But it was loud. And then five, 10 seconds later I heard a second one. In their own words: Victims describe confusion, then a desperate scramble to flee the store. Friends of the woman who died in the Collierville grocery shooting have identified her as Olivia King, a longtime resident of the area. David Fraser said King had no relatives in the Collierville area and that after the shooting Thursday, he traveled to the Regional One Hospital on behalf of her family.
King is described as a longtime resident of Collierville, originally from San Antonio. She was a widow, with three grown sons. Two currently serve in the armed forces while another had just earned a doctorate. Gave us an envelope with some money to help us at Christmas time," Maureen Fraser said to her husband.
Olivia King: Collierville Kroger shooting victim identified by friends. Regional One Health, which received the majority of the shooting victims — eight total — did not report any additional fatalities Friday morning. Two have been discharged. Of the remaining six patients, said Regional One spokesperson Angie Golding, three are in critical condition.
Three patients, said Dr. Martin Croce, the chief medical officer at Regional One, required emergency surgery, though it's unclear if those victims are the same three victims currently in critical condition. Regional One's director of trauma medicine, Dr. Peter Fisher, praised the response of the nurses and trauma surgeons, many of whom had spent recent weeks responding to a deluge of critically ill COVID patients. Peter Fisher, the trauma unit director, said Thursday's actions at Regional One were the result of regular training for such mass casualty events over the last five years.
Baptist Memorial Health Care spokesperson Kim Alexander confirmed both patients they treated from the shooting have been discharged. One patient was taken to one of the hospitals in the St. Francis Hospital system, but it's unclear which one. The grocer issued an initial statement expressing sorrow for the employees and customers affected, as well as gratitude for the first-responders. This event marks the second mass shooting in a year at one of the company's stores.
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