“It was the manager”: Walmart worker reveals horror of mass shooting

A Walmart employee said it was a manager who started shooting people in a break room at a store in Chesapeake, Virginia, on Tuesday night.

The employee described how he narrowly avoided being killed, having left the room moments before the gunfire began.

“It was the manager,” the employee said in a Facebook livestream that was shared widely on Twitter.

“I just left out a break room, manager come in there… started shooting bro.”

He added: “We lost a few of our associates. I don’t know how many,”

Breaking News: Watch the reaction of #Chesapeake Shooting and what appears to be a Walmart employee who was inside the breakroom at the time of the gunshots. According to unconfirmed sources, the shooter was a manager. pic.twitter.com/p8CTiK1ItZ

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Calling the store a “battlefield,” the employee said he had “just walked out the place he shot up no later than like three, five minutes.”

Police responded to a report of a shooting at the at the Walmart on Sam’s Circle around 10:15 p.m.

Officers found multiple dead people and injured people in the store and put rescue and tactical teams together to go inside to tend to victims, Chesapeake Officer Leo Kosinski said in a briefing.

Kosinski said police believe there was one shooter, who is dead.

“We are shocked at this tragic event at our Chesapeake, Virginia store,” Walmart tweeted early Wednesday.

“We’re praying for those impacted, the community and our associates. We’re working closely with law enforcement, and we are focused on supporting our associates.”

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.