Just days before Thanksgiving, 20-year-old Benjamin Charles Jones began shooting at a local Ohio Walmart, injuring four people — a Caucasian female, two African American females and a Caucasian male — before taking his own life. On Wednesday, the FBI revealed part of what they believe influenced Jones to open fire.
Beavercreek Police Department
All four victims survived and are in stable condition, and the investigation is still ongoing.
The FBI also revealed that Jones had bought the weapon he used — a Hi-Point .45 caliber carbine — just two days before the shooting. They said they are looking into his answers on his gun purchase paperwork to see if any of them were false.
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The Beavercreek shooting was the second to occur at a Walmart store in the U.S. in just over 24 hours.
On Sunday night, two people were shot and killed in the parking lot of a Walmart in Anchorage, Alaska, according to the Anchorage Police Department. Shortly after 5 p.m., officers responded “to reports of a shooting,” the policesaid in a release. “When officers arrived, they found a deceased adult female and a deceased adult male.”
“We have no motive yet, no information on what he may have been thinking, or anything else,” Beavercreek Police Capt. Scott Molnar told reporters Monday night, perNBC News. “We’re still looking into it. It’s very, very early in the investigation.”
source: people.com
