Police in Indiana on Friday said that heroic actions by a Walmart employee and law enforcement officers kept a gunman who shot and injured one female employee from doing more harm.
The woman was the only person injured late on Thursday when 25-year-old Ronald Ray Mosley II walked into a store break room where employees were meeting, specifically aimed at the victim and shot her in the face with a 9mm handgun.
Sergeant Anna Gray of the Evansville Police Department said officers were within the building within four minutes of the 911 call, and Mosley was shot and killed by officers who tracked him down shortly thereafter.
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No injuries were reported among the roughly 100 officers from several agencies who responded.
There were about 40 employees and 40 shoppers in the store at the time.
After the shooting, a male employee — whom Mosley was also targeting — ran out of the room, and Mosley followed him.
Another female employee saw that Mosley had fled the room and called 911. She then ran back into the room to get the victim, take her into another room, locked the door and turned out the lights before Mosley returned looking for the wounded woman.
Evansville Police Chief Billy Bolin called the employee a hero and credited her with saving the victim’s life.
“I have no doubt that he was going back to finish what he started and we would probably have a dead victim today instead of one that’s alive,” Bolin told a news conference on Friday.
The wounded woman was taken by helicopter to an Indianapolis hospital and was in stable condition, Gray said.
At least eight officers fired shots as they tracked Mosley, whom Bolin said left a suicide note.
“He absolutely planned to die last night,” Bolin said.
Gray said investigators did not yet know when Mosley acquired the handgun he used in the shooting or how many shots he fired.
Body camera video played during the news conference showed one officer holding an assault rifle in front of him and another officer in front of him moving through the aisles of the store until gunfire is heard from elsewhere in the store and an officer shouts: “Drop it. Drop it.” Moments later, a voice is heard saying: “He’s down, target is down.”
The shooting was not the first criminal incident involving Mosley at the store. He was fired from the store after being charged with four misdemeanor counts of battery on May 18 last year, after he attacked four coworkers.
A probable cause affidavit filed in the case states that Mosley told police he had issues with people at work and “lost control.”
The case was eventually referred to Vanderburgh County’s mental health court.
He had pleaded guilty to the battery charges and was complying with mental health treatment through the court, Vanderburgh County Prosecutor Diana Moers said.
Mosely had appeared for a progress hearing on Thursday afternoon, just hours before the shooting.
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