‘Disgruntled Employee’ Kills Two, Wounds Officer Inside Walmart

By Tom Knighton

When I first started carrying a firearm, it was kind of a tradition to carry at Walmart. After all, it’s a place where you’re likely to be around a fair number of people, which meant that if no one seemed to notice you were carrying, you were kind of doing it right. Or not. I honestly don’t know where the tradition started, but it was something concealed carry permit holders all over the state of Georgia did.

However, I can’t help but wonder what would have happened had someone been carrying on a similar tradition at a Mississippi Walmart yesterday.

A “disgruntled employee” killed two Walmart colleagues and wounded a responding police officer Tuesday in far northwest Mississippi, authorities said.

The deadly incident started at about 6:32 a.m. at the superstore before another responding officer eventually wounded the shooter, who was then taken into custody, a Southaven police dispatcher said.

Two employees were “senselessly murdered this morning in our city,” Southaven police Chief Macon Moore told reporters. Southaven is a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee, which is about 16 miles away.

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The shooter is in custody and was identified by police as Martez Tarrell Abram, 39. Abram wounded one officer …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms