Grocery store shooting leaves 2 dead; suspect in custody

A male suspect was killed by a woman at a factory in Louisville, Kentucky, and exchanged fire with an army bystander before fleeing the scene, police said. He was caught shortly afterward.

Both victims died at the store, said Jeffersontown Police Chief Sam Rogers. He did not say that he had a motive in Wednesday's shooting. He also did not identify the suspect.

Police reported on the shooting, Rogers said. He said the suspect fired multiple rounds at the man inside the store, and shot the female victim multiple times in the parking lot. A citizen armed with a gun in the parking lot, but the suspect was able to flee before he was captured on a nearby road, Rogers said.

Eric Deacon, who is identified as an EMT, told The Associated Press that he was in the self-checkout of the store when he heard the first shot, in the pharmacy.

He said to be a man on the corner and "the look on his face, he looked like he just did not care."

Deacon said he saw another man in the store with a gun who appeared to be shooting at the suspect, trying to get him out of the store. Deacon went outside and saw a woman in her mid-50s or early 60s who had been hit, and tried to resuscitate her.

"She was gone, there's nothing I could do," Deacon said. "I think she just got caught in the crossfire."

As police officers swarmed the scene and blocked off the area with yellow crime, a man identified by the Louisville Courier Journal as Tim King stood in the parking lot waiting for his wife to come out. He said he drove to the store after she called him.

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

King said his wife said, "Oh my God, he's killed her."

Customers were moved to the back of the store, she said.

"It's just a very, very scary situation," King said.

The Kroger Co. issued a statement saying that the company was "shocked and saddened by the shooting."

"Thanks for the quick response from the local police department, the suspect was apprehended and our store is secure."

The store is closed and will be reopen until the investigation is complete, the release said.