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2 shot, 1 dead at Va. Walmart distribution center

Associated Press

  February 23, 2012

An employee of a Wal-Mart Stores Inc. distribution center in Virginia shot and wounded his manager yesterday, then killed himself as deputies approached him, authorities said. Dinwiddie County Sheriff D.T. Adams said deputies who were summoned to the center along rural U.S. 460 shortly after noon encountered a 32-year-old man standing outside the entrance. When deputies approached, he shot at them with a handgun, then fatally shot himself in the chest.

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