A shootout near a Walmart supermarket in Duncan, Oklahoma, killed three people, including the alleged gunmen, police said in the central United States and local media. "A woman and a man died in a car and a man outside" the vehicle parked in the Walmart parking lot, Duncan police said on his Facebook page. A handgun was found on the scene, she said.
The track of a suicide evoked
According to police chief Danny Ford, quoted by local TV TNN-ABC, the shooter is among the victims. Witnesses quoted by the local channel said that the gunman approached his two victims and shot at them before turning the gun against him while he was being held by a fourth man who had pulled out his weapon.
Schools in the area were briefly placed in confinement at the request of the police, said city school officials, located 130 km south of the capital Oklahoma City. According to the local newspaper Duncan Banner , the police received shortly before 10 am local time, an alert signaling shots in the store and the presence on the scene of three victims.
A shootout reminiscent of El Paso
The United States is regularly bereaved by shootings, which in turn revive the debate over the proliferation of firearms, without the legislation in this area has evolved significantly. In early August, a 21-year-old white man killed 22 Walmart customers in El Paso, Texas, one of the busiest retail giant's in the United States, just meters from the Mexican border.