Five of the Walmart shooter’s victim’s identified, youngest who was just 16, remains unnamed – Night shift manager Andre Bing, 31, killed himself after shooting ten of his colleagues, six fatally, with death toll expected to rise
Andre Bing, 31, a shift manager at Walmart shot and killed six people at his workplace in Chesapeake, Virginia, on Tuesday night
Police identified five of the six victims as Lorenzo Gamble, 43, Kellie Pyle, 52, Brian Pendleton, 38, Randall Blevins Johnson, 70, all from Chesapeake and and 22-year-old Tyneka Johnson, from Portsmouth
Among the victims was a 16-year-old whose name has not been released because of he is a minor
Bing’s motive for the killings remains unclear, but the relatives of his victims say he was a ‘nasty’ boss
Brian Pendleton, one of the six killed, had complained about Bing not giving him weekends off
Others described him as being ‘weird’ and paranoid, and say he always had problems with his staff
Number of deaths likely to increase as the family of Blake Williams, 23, say he is likely to be taken off life support

The Walmart gunman Andre Bing, 31, killed himself after shooting ten of his colleagues, six of them fatally, at the store in Chesapeake, Virginia, on Tuesday night.
Police have identified five of the six victims range in age from 16 to 70, killed during a mass shooting at a Virginia Walmart Tuesday, hours after naming the disgruntled manager who carried out the killing which includes Lorenzo Gamble, 43, Kellie Pyle, 52, Brian Pendleton, 38, Randall Blevins Johnson, 70, all from Chesapeake and and 22-year-old Tyneka Johnson, from Portsmouth.
The sixth deceased victim was a 16-year-old boy, the city said. His name and photo were withheld due to his age.

Four people who were shot survived the attack and remain in the hospital today. Among them is Blake Williams, 23, whose family say he is clinging to life.
His family told The New York Post that they expect they will have to turn his life support off today.
They added that he wasn’t meant to be in the store on Tuesday night and ordinarily works the day shift, but had traded with a friend.
‘He never made it home. He wasn’t even supposed to be here. Wrong place, wrong time,’ his cousin, Shannon Cheetham, said.
Sarah Walker, another survivor, is also in the hospital.
Her friends and family say she was shot five times and is also in critical condition.
‘We are all still in shock and devastated,’ her stepfather, Jean Pate Walker, told local outlet WSFA. Walker has already undergone two surgeries and is due for a third today, he said.


FBI agents executed a search warrant against and left with boxes and bags of evidence.
Feds swooped on Bing’s single family home in Chesapeake where he lived alone at around 11pm on Tuesday night, shortly after the mass shooting at his job.
Locals describe seeing the SWAT team use a battering ram to break down the door of the property before scouring it for evidence.
The investigators revealed Thursday that they discovered a manifesto at the shooter’s home, where he complained that his victims were ‘harassing’ him.



A neighbor of Brian Pendleton, one of the victims, paid tribute to him as a ‘wonderful man’ – who had clashed with his manager over working night shifts.
The neighbor, named Patrice, said: ‘Brian was a wonderful man, he was always smiling. He loved his job, he was very dedicated.
‘He did often say he was having issues with a manager at work, who wouldn’t give him the weekends off.
‘Obviously I don’t know if it was the same manager. It’s just awful so close to Thanksgiving. He lost his sister a few months ago so it’s awful. He and his wife split up about three years ago and never had any children.


The mother of slain staffer Lorenzo Gamble lamented how her son, who worked at the store for 15 years and was set to transfer to another location: ‘My quiet baby Lorenzo is gone,’ the mourning mom wrote in a post to Facebook Wednesday morning.
‘He worked there for 15 years, he was going transfer to Grassfield. Now his sons is loss [sic] without him.’
Brian Baker, boyfriend of Kellie Pyle, shared a heartfelt post remembering his partner. ‘Until we see each other again my angel,’ a caption for the tribute read.
Another victim Brian Pendleton’s worked at the Walmart for nearly 11 years as a custodian and ‘loved his job,’ according to his mother.
‘He was just a hard worker and a good kid,’ she said.

The mom went on to describe the horror she and her husband went through Tuesday when they received a phone call from a family friend notifying her that there had been a shooting at the store. They were soon notified that their son has sustain unspecified injuries and was being treated at nearby Norfolk General Hospital, where they quickly drove to see him.
‘We waited, and then the police came out with a nurse and they took us to a side room and that’s when they told us that he didn’t make it,’ an emotional Johnson said, reportedly holding back tears.
‘I just wondered, was he afraid at that time? I know my son. I didn’t want him to be afraid, and I didn’t want him to hurt.’

Tyneka Johnson, a 22-year-old who was only in her second moth on the job at the store, was remembered fondly by her family as ‘the nicest person, who never bothered anyone.’
Rashawnda Ruffin, her cousin, wrote in a post to Facebook: ‘Damn couss I’m sorry this happened to you so soon you had so many plans but I guess god had other plans. So this means no more phone calls? No more sending pictures of your tattoos and I pick them out?
‘I’m just lost of words it was nothing but laughs and jokes LONG LIVE TYNEKA.’
It is not clear if the other two victims, 70-year-old Blevins and the teenager were also workers at the store.

FBI agents swooped on Bings three-bedroom $300,000 property where he lived alone at around 11pm on Tuesday night, shortly after the mass killing.
Locals describe seeing the SWAT team use a battering ram to break down the door of the property before scouring it for evidence.
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