<p>A shooter opened fire in a Walmart in Virginia late on Tuesday, leaving six people dead, police said, in the second high-profile mass killing in a handful of days. The assailant is also dead.</p>.<p>The store in Chesapeake is now safe, Officer Leo Kosinski said in the early hours of Wednesday.</p>.<p>The shooting came three days after a person opened fire at a gay nightclub in Colorado late on Saturday, killing five people and wounding 17. Earlier in the year, the country was shaken by the deaths of 21 when a gunman stormed an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.</p>.<p>Tuesday's shooting also brought back memories of another at a Walmart in 2019, when a gunman police say was targeting Mexicans opened fire at a store in El Paso and killed 22 people.</p>.<p>Earlier, Kosinski said he couldn't say how the gunman died but that he didn't believe police fired shots.</p>.<p>The shooting had apparently stopped when police arrived at the store in Chesapeake, which is Virginia's second-largest city and lies next to the seaside communities of Norfolk and Virginia Beach.</p>.<p>Mike Kafka, a spokesman for Sentara Healthcare, said in a text message that five patients from the Walmart were being treated at Norfolk General Hospital. Their conditions weren't immediately available.</p>.<p>Walmart tweeted early on Wednesday that it was “shocked at this tragic event.”</p>.<p>US Sen. Mark Warner said in a tweet that he was “sickened by reports of yet another mass shooting, this time at a Walmart in Chesapeake.”</p>.<p>State Sen. Louise Lucas echoed Warner's sentiment, tweeting that she was “absolutely heartbroken that America's latest mass shooting took place in a Walmart in my district."</p>
<p>A shooter opened fire in a Walmart in Virginia late on Tuesday, leaving six people dead, police said, in the second high-profile mass killing in a handful of days. The assailant is also dead.</p>.<p>The store in Chesapeake is now safe, Officer Leo Kosinski said in the early hours of Wednesday.</p>.<p>The shooting came three days after a person opened fire at a gay nightclub in Colorado late on Saturday, killing five people and wounding 17. Earlier in the year, the country was shaken by the deaths of 21 when a gunman stormed an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.</p>.<p>Tuesday's shooting also brought back memories of another at a Walmart in 2019, when a gunman police say was targeting Mexicans opened fire at a store in El Paso and killed 22 people.</p>.<p>Earlier, Kosinski said he couldn't say how the gunman died but that he didn't believe police fired shots.</p>.<p>The shooting had apparently stopped when police arrived at the store in Chesapeake, which is Virginia's second-largest city and lies next to the seaside communities of Norfolk and Virginia Beach.</p>.<p>Mike Kafka, a spokesman for Sentara Healthcare, said in a text message that five patients from the Walmart were being treated at Norfolk General Hospital. Their conditions weren't immediately available.</p>.<p>Walmart tweeted early on Wednesday that it was “shocked at this tragic event.”</p>.<p>US Sen. Mark Warner said in a tweet that he was “sickened by reports of yet another mass shooting, this time at a Walmart in Chesapeake.”</p>.<p>State Sen. Louise Lucas echoed Warner's sentiment, tweeting that she was “absolutely heartbroken that America's latest mass shooting took place in a Walmart in my district."</p>