In the video, her daughter says, 'Mommy, we need to go.' Everything was happening so fast, I just wanted to get me and my kid to safety.' 'I didn't know if this was a random thing or a domestic thing or if this was a mass shooting. 'I saw people and heard shots and my first though was 'Jesus, is this another mass shooting?'' she said. They huddled until they were able to escape through a side door. Tate said Saturday she was by the meat section when she heard 'about six or seven shots.' She dropped to the ground and crawled toward her daughter who was at the other end. Shrieks from inside the store were heard on video recorded by shopper Nikki Tate, who had stopped by with her daughter to pick up steaks and lobsters for Father's Day.

Shoppers and employees described terror and chaos when shots rang out shortly before 8 p.m. The man involved in the argument was killed, Corona police Lt. Witnesses said they saw a man with a Mohawk haircut arguing with someone near a freezer section when shots rang out at least six times. The shooting prompted a stampede of frightened shoppers to flee the store east of Los Angeles and seek cover inside. The officer was the only person who fired shots in the store, the department said. The officer, whose identity is being withheld, was treated and released at a nearby hospital, and the officer's child was not injured, the department said. The relatives are in critical conditions at hospitals. The officer fired his gun, hitting French and two of French's relatives, the department said.įrench was killed, the department said. Kenneth French, 32, of Riverside assaulted the Los Angeles Police Department officer while he was holding his young child, the department said in a statement Saturday night. A fatal shooting inside a Costco Wholesale warehouse store Friday night took place after a man attacked an off-duty police officer, the Corona Police Department said. “The safety of our members and employees is extremely important to us.CORONA, Calif. “Our thoughts are with our members who were in the building when this incident occurred,” the company said.

The shooting took place about 100 miles from Corona.Ĭostco issued a statement about Friday’s shooting, but did not discuss the details. A gunman seriously wounded his ex-girlfriend and her current boyfriend in the parking lot of a Chula Vista, Calif., store on Monday before killing himself. The shooting on Friday was the first of two episodes of gun violence at Costco locations in California in under 72 hours. Truth will come out! I’m sure this was a misunderstanding that got escalated for no reason!” This is a family that was unarmed and was just grocery shopping. “Did he really have to shoot them all? I’m posting this picture because the stories on social media have made them out to be the suspects, and the off duty cop the victim. Shureih posted a Facebook photo of his cousin, aunt and uncle at Universal Studios. “I was hiding in between the meat aisle, behind the freezer section. Bawit said, adding that she was within 10 feet of the men and then took cover. He pulled out his handgun and starts triggering five to seven shots,” Ms. Bawit said she initially went to help the officer, but retreated as the altercation escalated. “He fell pretty hard because I heard a pretty big thump on the ground,” Ms. She said he had appeared to be in distress. Dianne Bawit, a 21-year-old student at California State University San Marcos, said she had been shopping for bottled water when she saw a man, who she later learned was the police officer, falling to the ground.

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