There has been a shooting at the Wal-Mart in Duncan, Oklahoma.
Duncan Police Department have confirmed the suspect in this morning's Walmart shooting is dead. The Duncan Banner is meeting with DPD in 15 to 20 minutes for a media update. https://t.co/wyBzbYvXoj
— Duncan Banner (@DuncanBanner) November 18, 2019
There aren’t a lot of details available. Duncan is about 90 minutes south of Oklahoma City. The local police department doesn’t appear to have a Twitter account and the county sheriff’s office’s Twitter account is secured and not open to the public. The Duncan Banner, the local newspaper, has most of the available details:
Duncan Police Department have confirmed the suspect in this morning’s Walmart shooting is dead. It is confirmed three are dead, including the suspect.
District Attorney Jason Hicks is on the scene. He has confirmed the scene is contained and this is not an active shooter situation anymore.
The Duncan Banner is meeting with DPD in 15 to 20 minutes for a media update.
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At approximately 9:54 a.m. calls on the police scanner indicated a shooting at Walmart with three down and suspect still at large. The suspect, according to DPD, is now dead.
Red River Tech is on lock down. Duncan Public Schools is on lock down as well. According to Tom Deighan with Duncan Public Schools, schools are on lockdown and school will continue as normal inside. The district says parents should not try to pick up their child at this time. Children will not be released because of the lockdown protocol.
It is unclear at this time how severe the injuries of the victims are. The Banner will update more as information becomes available. Please use caution when traveling in this area and be aware of law enforcement as they work to secure the scene.
The shooting has made the national cable news, which is how I heard about it, but there doesn’t appear to be video or even large scale local TV news coverage because of where Duncan is. As is almost always the case with these types of events, information is going to come out in fits and starts and will likely be adjusted and revised as new, better, and more accurate information becomes available.
Open thread!
JPL
Black Friday should be fun.
WaterGirl
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Fleeting Expletive
At this minute, 10:57 local time, I can tell you that None of the 3 broadcast affiliate stations in Tulsa is breaking into programming with the news–I first saw it on twitter about 4 minutes ago–other than a chyron at the bottom of the screen.
Last night’s Watchmen episode on HBO was rather pointed in demonstrating the power of fear to control populations. Damn it. I hate that people with guns get off on scaring people everywhere.
Caroline Abbott
Duncan’s claim to infamy is that it was the originating home of Halliburton, although the corporate headquarters migrated to Houston long ago. It’s a mostly white, conservative town, mostly below average income even in a below-average-income state. It lost its cotton industry decades ago; the fossil fuel money goes out of state. Even animal agriculture has become corporatized and shareholder valued, so that cattle doesn’t benefit the area as much as it once did.
It’s nearer to Fort Sill and Lawton than to Oklahoma City. Guns and resentment are the biggest cultural investments in the region.
trollhattan
Add it to last night’s Fresno slaughter and it’s two in a half day. Thotsn prars n ammo.
cain
I feel like walmart is the worst place to shop given that it seems to be the perfect target for mass shooters.
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cain
@trollhattan:
There was a shooting at Fresno too? Good grief.
Adam L Silverman
@cain: Yep, someone not related to anyone at the party showed up at a house party a family was throwing and started shooting. The family and most of the attendees and victims were Asian American. I’ve not seen much on the shooter’s background or his motives. So I’m not sure if it was a hate crime/domestic terrorism or something else. I was planning on doing a post about it later today or tomorrow when more info came out, but then this happened.
EmDeeBee
The local ABC affiliate (Oklahoma City KOCO, Channel 5, owned by Hearst) broke into programming about 25 minutes after the reported shooting but only had in-studio coverage and shots of its helicopter on the way to Duncan. The local FOX affiliate (KOKH 25, owned by Sinclair) ran this story, but be careful because upon scrolling a very unresponsive full-page ad covers the screen (or blanks it out if using an ad-blocker). The NBC (KFOR 4, owned by Nexstar) and CBS (KWTV, owned by in-state company Griffin Communications, owned by the people who make Griffin’s pancake syrup and jams) had crawls across the screen. A media update is scheduled for about now.
KOCO’s in-studio coverage featured a call-in from a man who claimed to be an ex-MP who said that a man in the parking lot strolled up to a car and opened fire, that someone else with a gun intervened and made him stop after firing about nine rounds, and that the gunman “then executed hisself [sic].” Parts of the Walmart store are still open, said the anchors and the Duncan public schools have lifted their lockdown. OHP confirms three dead including the shooter.
ETA: The crawl on KWTV now quotes the Duncan police chief, Danny Ford, as saying two people were “found dead” inside the vehicle and a third person was “found dead” outside it. The station quotes Ford as saying two men and a woman are deceased, but no one has released their identities. He also confirms that the public school lockdown was lifted.
joel hanes
@cain:
Walmart is a terrible place to shop for a host of reasons.
Walmart hurts communities, damages the businesses of their own suppliers, and has a long history of abusive labor practices.
JPL
Three dead and odds are that it will receive scant time on MSM.
rikyrah
@Adam L Silverman:
Been looking for information on this shooting too.
Adam L Silverman
@rikyrah: Here’s some of the most recent reporting, from about two hours ago. Unfortunately it is largely built on the local Fresno Bee’s reporting from last night when the shooting took place.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/11/18/shooting-backyard-party-injures-least-nine-kills-multiple-people-fresno-california/
RedDirtGirl
So sick of this fucking timeline!
Another Scott
It’s not on the Gun Violence Archive yet:
We’re number 1, We’re number 1, We’re number 1!!!
:-/
Cheers,
Scott.
chris
@Another Scott: It is now. Top of page 1.
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/last-72-hours
25 incidents per page, if you want to see what happened on Saturday go to page 5 and scroll. Quick, ban vaping!
NotMax
@WaterGirl
This needs to be a sticky post at top of front page.
WaterGirl
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WaterGirl
@NotMax:
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WaterGirl
@cain: Forgot to say thank you for your kind words. Much appreciated!
allium
Recent update from the Fresno Bee – two of the victims (one dead, one undergoing surgery) were well-known Hmong singers.
There’s a heavy Hmong presence in the Central Valley, and one of my sisters-in-law is Hmong (although her immediate family lives in Massachusetts).
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article237489389.html#storylink=bignews_main
Duane
@cain: The smug SOB that walked into a Wal-mart in Springfield Mo with a hundred rounds of ammo and a rifle got off with probation. Should have shot him when they had the chance.
DaveInOz
It even made it to the ABC radio news here in Melbourne
Mike in Pasadena
Does anybody else ask:
Whose gun(s) was used?
How did the shooter get the gun?
If shooter did not own the gun, did the owner lock it/secure it and if so how did the shooter get past the locks?
If the gun was a recent purchase, did the seller follow the procedures required by law?
I seldom see answers to any of these questions. I would like liability to be assessed against gun owners who do not secure their weapons and sellers who violate the sales laws. Yeah, that’ll happen. /s