Tennessee shooter identified as Uk Thang, 29 years old, third party vendor at Kroger

[Demovictory9]

https://heavy.com/news/uk-thang

Uk Thang was identified as the gunman who shot 15 people, one fatally, at a Kroger grocery store in Collierville, Tennessee.

Collierville Police Chief Dale Lane confirmed in a news conference that the gunman shot 15 victims, with some in serious condition. Thang was 29 years old and shot and killed himself at the scene; he was found in the rear of the store. Police declined to give his name in a news conference, but they released it to the news media afterwards, according to the Daily Memphian.

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Uk Thang’s cousin, Pang Cing, told The Daily Beast that he learned the news from Thang’s parents but hadn’t seen him in 10 years.

Bawi Thang knew Thang, although they are not related, and told Daily Beast Thang was “always involved in church. I always looked up to him.” Those accounts increase the mystery as to what made the gunman snap and become a mass murderer, according to police.


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“They had to walk the guy out yesterday morning. I think it was round about 9:00,” said Clark. “His boss came and they were talking to him about what happened. They had to walk him out and he didn’t really want them to walk him out. They said they were gonna call the police. But I guess he left at that point.”

She describes Thang as quiet, only conversing with the other sushi workers and sometimes arguing with other co-workers.

“I never said much to him. I think he was pretty off to himself. People had said he don’t like people to speak with him,” said Clark.


Vivian Harris thinks she ran into Thang at another Kroger store in Whitehaven earlier in the day, talking to him as he was making a delivery to the sushi department.

https://www.wreg.com/news/local/collierville-kroger-shooting-what-we-know-about-uk-thang/

[Treefrog]

1. So another workplace shooting because of being fired.

Nothing to see here, move along.

[malaise]

2. A workplace shooting - I thought it was mask madness

Guns kill