Two individuals had been shot and killed at a shopping mall in Bend, Ore., on Sunday, prompting regulation enforcement companies to flood the realm and enter a grocery retailer, the place officers discovered a suspect lifeless from a gunshot wound, the authorities stated.
Officers had been nonetheless investigating a motive and whether or not there have been different perpetrators concerned within the capturing, which started at about 7 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on the parking zone of the Discussion board Buying Middle.
Not less than one suspect started capturing within the parking zone after which entered a Safeway grocery retailer, the place the suspect shot and killed one individual close to the entrance door, Sheila Miller, a spokeswoman for the Bend Police Division, stated by cellphone on Sunday.
The suspect continued strolling by the shop, firing a number of rounds, the police stated. The suspect then fatally shot one other individual inside the shop, Ms. Miller stated.
When law enforcement officials entered the shop, they discovered the suspect lifeless, in addition to an AR-15-style rifle and one other rifle, Ms. Miller stated.
The capturing got here somewhat greater than three months after a gunman armed with an assault-style weapon killed 10 individuals and wounded three others in an assault at a Tops grocery store in Buffalo.
