An 18-year-old Nigerian-American
teenager, Soloman Onwukaife, is being held by the police in Austin,
Texas USA for shooting five people in an earlier dispute over a girl at
Walmart Store.
“This stemmed from a party that occurred
possibly somewhere either in Williamson County or Leander, in which
there was alcohol consumed at that party,” Henry Fluck, Cedar Park
Police Chief said in a press statement.
According to the police, fight broke out
in the Walmart parking lot and Onwukaife began shooting, hitting five
people. The incident took place at a time when there were a few
customers in the Walmart store parking lot. They said no Walmart
employee or customer was injured. The store closed briefly as police
sealed-off the area conducting investigations and re-opened at 9 a.m.
“This morning at 4:30 a.m. I heard a
‘pop, pop, pop,’ like firecrackers. All of a sudden I saw police and
ambulance,” an unidentified woman told reporters.
19-year-old Shayne Davis, 22-year-old
Leland McGlocklin, 19-year-old Zacharia Gietl, 18-year-old Cody McGrath
and an unidentified victim were wounded and taken to St. David’s Round
Rock Medical Center. Davis, McGlocklin and McGrath remain in critical
condition. Gietl, was treated and released the same day (Sunday).
Onwukaife who suffered facial injuries was treated and handed back to
police. He has been charged in court with aggravated assault with a
deadly weapon in connection with the incident.
Gietl told police the dispute began when
a man choked a wo-man at a nearby party earlier in the evening
(Saturday) and several people agreed to fight at the Walmart parking
lot. He said he was not at the party but went to the parking lot to stop
his friends from continuing the fight. Source: Masterweb Reports
