Andre Marcus Bing, an employee suspected to have shot dead six people at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia on Tuesday night before killing himself, is seen laughing and joking with colleagues on a video said to be from hours before the massacre.
In the video, widely shared on social media, Bing talks about driving a car with some of his colleagues. A woman apparently filming the video is heard saying, “We were driving in the back,” to which Bing said, “We were driving in the back. I was parking in and everything. As a matter of fact, umm, it’s more fun than driving the car.” The context of the discussion was not immediately clear.
When Bing realises that his colleague is filming him on Facebook live, he apparently tries to duck out of view, at which point his colleague bursts out laughing and says out his name aloud.
OPOYI cannot independently verify the authenticity of the video.
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Police initially said 10 people had died in the incident, including the gunman, but later clarified that the suspect shot and killed six people before shooting himself.
The police are yet to officially identify the shooter, but Walmart said the gunman was Andre Bing, who worked as the lead of the Chesapeake store’s overnight team. Bing had been working at Walmart since 2010.
A witness told FOX3 that the 31-year-old manager shot a woman in her head and then shot another man in his head. He then allegedly shot a homeboy dead before killing himself.
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The motive behind the shooting remains unknown.
“We were able to find multiple fatalities and multiple injured parties,” Chesapeake Police Department officer Leo Kosinski told reporters at the scene. “We believe it is a single shooter and that single shooter is deceased at this time,” he said.