Nassau County Police say they have apprehended the suspect in a shooting at a grocery store in Hempstead, Long Island. Police say the shooter is a current or former worker at the store.
Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said around midday, 31-year-old Gabriel DeWitt Wilson went upstairs to the manager’s office at the Stop & Shop on Cherry Valley Road and started shooting.
The manager of the store died. Two others were taken to the hospital and are helping investigators.
“We probably had a couple of 100 shoppers in the store at the time. You saw the line trying to get out. We stopped the question to make sure we have anybody that was a witness. Their information is being given to a homicide unit who's doing the investigation,” Ryder said.
Ryder said DeWitt Wilson fled with a small handgun. There were some 150 police searching the area. He was found a few hours later in Hempstead.
