In a shooting in a New York supermarket on Tuesday, one person was killed and two others were injured, authorities said.
During an afternoon news briefing, Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder identified the person who died as a 49-year-old man. The two other victims were taken to nearby hospitals and on alert, he said. Their names and terms were not immediately released by the authorities.
Ryder said the shooting took place in an office upstairs in a Stop & Shop supermarket on Long Island.
30-year-old Gabriel Dewitt Wilson was identified as a person of interest who is still at large, according to the commissioner. He was last seen wearing a black baseball hat and black sweatshirt heading west on the Hempstead Turnpike, police said.
Authorities were still trying to confirm whether he was a current or former supermarket employee.
Wilson is believed to have fled after the shooting, possibly jumping on a nearby bus to escape, NBC New York reported. Details about a motif have not been released.
Schools in the West Hempstead district were shut down after administrators were informed of police activity in the area.
The Long Island shooting comes less than a week after authorities said a gunman killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis last Thursday before killing himself. Four others who were shot and another injured were taken to hospitals. Officials identified the shooter as 19-year-old Brandon Scott Hole, a former FedEx employee who committed suicide on the spot.
The incident was also the second fatal supermarket shooting in less than a month. On March 22, suspect Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa was charged with walking into a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado and randomly shooting shoppers, killing 10 people, including a police officer. He was charged with 10 counts of first degree murder.
According to NBC News, there will have been at least six large-scale shootings in 2021, including those in Indianapolis and Boulder.
