Shoppers dive for cover as shots fired in Walmart parking lot

One man was wounded Wednesday afternoon in a shooting outside a Walmart in Fayetteville, police said.
Posted 9/27/2017, 9:38:06 PM Updated 9/23/2025, 7:52:15 PM

RECRUITS.

>>> I'M LYNDA LOVELAND.

>> AND I'M DAVID CRABTREE,

DEBRA MORGAN HAS THE DAY OFF.

>>> SKY 5 WAS OVER THE SCENE

NOT LONG AGO, AND GILBERT BAEZ

IS LIVE AT THE SCENE WITH WHAT

HE'S LEARNED.

>> UNTIL ABOUT 10 MINUTE AGO IT

WAS AN ACTIVE CRIME SCENE, IT'S

NOT THE CASE ANY MORE.

THE SHOOTING TOOK PLACE, AND WE

HAVE PICTURES EARLIER TODAY,

THE SHOOTING HAPPENED BEFORE 3

THIS AFTERNOON.

THEY SECURED THE PARKING LOT,

THEY STARTED COLLECTING

EVIDENCE, ONE BULLET CASING WAS

FOUND ON THE GROUND WHERE THE

SHOOTING TOOK PLACE, THERE WERE

SHOPPERS IN THE PARKING LOT WHO

SCRAMBLED FOR SAFETY, AND THE

UNIDENTIFIED SUSPECT WAS SHOT

MULTIPLE TIMES.

>> HE WAS SHOT IN THE PARKING

LOT WHERE HE COLLAPSED AND WAS

TRANSPORTED TO CAPE FEAR

MEDICAL CENTER.

WE'RE TRYING TO FIND OUT ABOUT

THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT LED UP

TO THE SHOOTING.

>> NOW, POLICE SAY AFTER THE

SHOOTING, THE SUSPECT MADE OFF

WITH THE VICTIM'S VEHICLE, IT

IS A 2007 BLACK FORD RANCH

TRUCK.

THIS IS THE LICENSE PLATE, NOW,

POLICE DON'T KNOW IF THIS WAS A

ROBBERY OR A CARJACKING, BUT

YOU CAN SEE THERE ARE PLENTY OF

SECURITY CAMERAS THAT LINE THE

WALL, THE ROOF AT THE WAL-MART.

INVESTIGATORS WILL BE SPENDING

TIME RIGHT NOW LOOKING AT THE

VIDEO INSIDE THE PARKING LOT

AND VIDEO INSIDE THE STORE TO

TRY TO IDENTIFY THE SUSPECT IN

THIS CASE AND THEY'RE TRYING TO

FIGURE OUT WHAT HAPPENED OUT

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