At least 1 dead, 12 others injured after shooting at Memphis-area Kroger

[demmiblue]

Source: CNN

(CNN)[Breaking news update, published at 4:23 p.m. ET]

Collierville Police Chief Dale Lane says there are 13 victims, one of whom died, after a shooting in a Kroger. The shooter was found deceased, the chief said.

[Previous story, published at 4:06 p.m. ET]

A shooting took place at a Kroger in Collierville, Tennessee, just east of Memphis on Thursday afternoon, according to Jennifer Casey, a spokesperson for the town.

Casey later told the The Commercial Appeal newspaper there were multiple injuries and people were being taken to the hospital following the shooting at the grocery store.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/23/us/tennessee-colliersville-shooting/index.html

[Roland99]

1. What?! a mass shooting? In America?? no way

Ugh


sickening.

[KG]

2. yay. gunz.

[Tommymac]

3. Awful. But Fox news is killing Wholesale, not retail.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215883945#post33
Millions of conservative Americans are being brainwashed about the pandemic, and thousands are killing themselves in the process. Yet the media downplay the huge story, framing it simply as “vaccine hesitancy.”

The number of Americans who are dying every 36 hours from Covid now surpasses the total number of U.S. soldiers who were killed during 20 years of fighting in Afghanistan. It’s an entirely preventable crisis, yet it rages because we have people like the red state restaurant owner who is kicking out patrons if they refuse to take off their masks. It’s pure nihilism.

Goddamn NRA. Goddamn QOP. May every fucking member of that Party, from 1962 onwards, suffer in hell for eternity.

[rsdsharp]

5. The full quote is

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

It’s from Robert A. Heinlein’s Beyond This Horizon.

[Tommymac]

6. Not sure what you are referring too - but I HATE Heinlein - he is a Libertarian monster in my eyes

[rsdsharp]

9. I was referring to the quote you deleted from your post.

You won’t care, but for half his life Heinlein was a liberal Democrat. He was very active in Upton Sinclair’s EPIC campaign for California Governor.

[Celerity]

4. the 2nd Amendment is a slow burn suicide pact

[evolves]

7. My hometown.

My mom was planning to go to that store this afternoon, but got distracted by other things....

[Luciferous]

11. I always liked going to Collierville when we lived in Memphis. We used to go

antiquing at Sheffield and walk around the square.

[evolves]

13. What part of town did you live in?

My family has been in Collierville for 4 generations. I hat to see this anywhere, but this is particularly devastating.

[Luciferous]

15. We lived on Mud Island for a while, and then moved to Desoto county. I do think

it's harder when it hits close to home.

[evolves]

16. It definitely is.

I can remember when Mud Island really WAS just a muddy island. It’s come a long way!

[Evolve Dammit]

8. Get yer damn hands off MY pork roast or I kiyya. Just guessing..

[Coventina]

10. USA USA USA USA!!!!!!

[ck4829]

12. Kick

[live love laugh]

14. Killer's name not mentioned once. Strange.

[Devil Child]

19. How so?

[XanaDUer2]

17. Kick nt

[CTyankee]

18. I won't live in a red state and our state, despite Sandy Hook, is not friendly toward people who mus

have their firearms. If you love guns, don't come here. Go somewhere else and good riddance...

[Devil Child]

20. 1 dead, 14 hurt in shooting at Kroger grocery store near Memphis, suspected gunman identified

Authorities identified the suspected gunman Friday as UK Thang, 29, a third-party vendor for Kroger.

Collierville Police Department Chief Dale Lane said in a press briefing Friday that a total of 15 people were shot, including 70-year-old Olivia King who died from her wounds, and are in stable condition.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-reported-kroger-grocery-store-memphis-police/story?id=80195376