{"id":2416,"date":"2022-11-25T21:16:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T02:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/2022\/11\/25\/walmart-gunman-bought-pistol-hours-before-killing-and-left-a-death-note\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T21:16:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T02:16:45","slug":"walmart-gunman-bought-pistol-hours-before-killing-and-left-a-death-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gynesisradio.com\/tpsquare\/2022\/11\/25\/walmart-gunman-bought-pistol-hours-before-killing-and-left-a-death-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart Gunman Bought Pistol Hours Before Killing and Left a \u2018Death Note\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

A message found by the police on the killer\u2019s phone asked God to forgive him for targeting co-workers, whose deaths were the latest in a string of mass shooting fatalities.<\/p>

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A memorial outside the Walmart in Chesapeake, Va., where a gunman fatally shot six people on Tuesday night.Credit…Kenny Holston for The New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>

The Walmart supervisor who shot and killed six of his co-workers at a store in Chesapeake, Va., this week purchased a pistol only hours before the massacre and left a note on his phone, in which he described planning to target some colleagues and spare others, according to new details released on Friday.<\/p>

With loved ones of the victims continuing to mourn and a candlelight vigil planned by the city on Monday, the note provided the first indication of what led to the eruption of workplace violence on Tuesday night in a Walmart break room, where members of what has been described as a close-knit overnight team<\/a> were gunned down.<\/p>

As with a seemingly endless series of recent mass shootings across the country<\/a> \u2014 through a Raleigh, N.C., neighborhood<\/a>, at an Indiana mall\u2019s food court<\/a>, inside a Colorado nightclub<\/a> \u2014 the employee\u2019s ability to purchase the weapon and quickly use it provided yet another grim data point in the nation\u2019s ongoing tug of war over gun violence.<\/p>

President Biden, speaking to reporters on Thanksgiving Day<\/a>, said he would press for new restrictions in Congress, particularly on military-style rifles.<\/p>

Asked whether he could do anything about gun violence before Republicans take power in the House of Representatives next year, Mr. Biden said, \u201cI\u2019m going to try. I\u2019m going to try to get rid of assault weapons.\u201d<\/p>

While such weapons have figured into several mass shootings in recent months, including at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and in a grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y., the gunman in the Chesapeake Walmart opened fire with a newly acquired 9-millimeter handgun.<\/p>