Police: 2 people killed in a shootout in Kentucky

JEFFERSONTOWN, Ky. – A suspect shot dead a man and a woman at a Kroger grocery store in the suburbs of Louisville, Kentucky, and exchanged shots with a pbaderby before he ran away. announced the police. He was captured shortly after.

The two victims died at the store, said Jeffersontown Police Chief Sam Rogers. He did not say whether the police had determined a reason. He did not identify the suspect either.

Police received a call around 3 pm reporting the shooting, Rogers said. He added that the suspect fired several times at the man inside the shop and shot the victim several times in the parking lot. A citizen armed with a firearm hired the gunman into the parking lot, but the suspect was able to flee before being captured on a nearby road, Rogers said.

Eric Deacon, who introduced himself as an EMT, told The Associated Press that he was in the store's self-checkout line when he heard the first shot in the pharmacy.

He said that a man arrived at the corner of the street and that "the look that he had on the face, he looked like he did not have it done . care. "

Deacon said he saw another man in the store with a gun that appeared to shoot the suspect, trying to get him out of the store. Deacon came out and saw a woman who had been touched in her mid-fifties or early sixties and tried to resuscitate her.

"She was gone, I could not do anything," said Deacon. "I think she's just getting caught in the crossfire."

As police officers invaded the scene and blocked the area with yellow tape, a man identified by the Louisville Courier Journal newspaper while Tim King was standing in the parking lot was waiting for his. woman to go out. He said he went to the store after she called him sobbing to tell him what had happened.

"I said," What's wrong? King said in a video posted on the newspaper's website. "And she said," There is someone who shot here. "

King stated that his wife had heard muffled sounds, then someone ran into a corner and said says, "Oh my God, he killed her."

"This is a very, very scary situation," said King.

The Kroger company issued a statement in which she stated that the company's managers were "shocked and saddened by the shooting.

"Thanks to the quick reaction of the local police department, the suspect has been apprehended and our store is secure.

The store has been closed and will not reopen until the investigation is complete, the statement said.