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Shots fired reports at Baton Rouge Walmart; no active-shooter situation nor injuries reportedStaff reportsLaw enforcement and medical personnel responded Tuesday afternoon to reports of shots fired at the Walmart on Burbank Drive, but no injuries have been confirmed and there is no indication that there is an active shooter, officials said. "It's a big, active scene, but we haven't found any victims at the moment," said East Baton Rouge Emergency Medical Services spokesman Mike Chustz. He clarified that there is not an active shooter. https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_cae700c4-b86c-11e9-9f27-dff771536d92.html
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - One suspect is in custody and another is still at large following a reported shooting at the Walmart on Burbank.At around 11:45 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 6, dispatch received several calls about reports of a shooting at the Walmart. Deputies arrived to learn shots had been fired in the store.Deputies evacuated the building, set up a perimeter, and conducted a search inside the store.Deputies arrested one suspect, but the other fled the scene in a light-colored sedan. Detectives are actively looking for the second suspect. He’s described as a thin black male with a slight build, thin, wearing black shorts and a black shirt with a short haircut.The person who was injured was an innocent bystander, according to East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff Sid Gautreaux.Gautreaux says an altercation between two patrons in the store erupted to the point where they pulled guns on each other. Both of the suspects had handguns. Detectives were able to recover one of the handguns.“I want to let everybody know that this was not an active shooter,†Gautreaux said in a press conference at the crime scene. “Thank God this was nothing like anywhere near what they faced in El Paso or anything like this.â€EMS personnel say there were no patients transported from the Walmart. The shooting victim is a 42-year-old male who drove himself to the hospital with at least one gunshot wound.“It’s unfortunate that the one subject got struck,†Gautreaux said. “He was, like I said, an innocent shopper at the store. He was standing in the line.â€More at link.
It wasn't an "active shooter situation," but someone was shot?
Active Shooter, Noun ‘ak-tiv ‘shu-terThe agreed-upon definition of an “active shooter†by US government agencies (including the White House, US Department of Justice, FBI, US Department of Education, US Department of Homeland Security, and Federal Emergency Management Agency) is “an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a conï¬ned and populated area.
