Police: 4 shot at Cedar Park Wal-Mart; suspect in custody

[onehandle]

Source: The Statesman

Multiple people have been hospitalized this morning after a shooting in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart in Cedar Park, police said.

An unidentified suspect is in custody following what police described as an altercation that occured about 4:30 a.m. in the parking lot of the store off U.S. 183 and FM 1431.

“The store is shut down, but that’s Wal-Mart’s doing, until our investigation in the parking lot is done,” said Cedar Park Police Capt. Mike Harmon.

Harmon said police were unsure how many victims were hospitalized or how the altercation began. No store employees were injured or involved, Harmon said.


Read more: http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2012/08/19/multiple_people_hospitalized_i.html

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Clearly Texas doesn't have enough guns. They need to loosen those restrictive laws.

[lonestarnot]

1. Next they'll be shoot'n at all the west nile virus carry'n mosquitos. Yeeee haaaaaaw. Tejas.

[tanyev]

4. Hey! It's the only surefire way to kill those bloodsuckin' varmints!

[bitchkitty]

2. Clearly!

If those 4 people had guns, they could have each shot 4 people! Who in turn could each shoot 4 people, and so on, and so on, and so on.

It will never end.

[shadowrider]

3. Hmmm

"In a news release, Harmon said police believe “that a group of people met in the parking (lot) of the (Wal-Mart) for an altercation."

Betcha $20 this is gang related.

Explain to me please, how taking guns away from, or restricting in any way, lawful gun owners will alleviate the gang problem.

[PSPS]

6. Not to worry.

In case you haven't noticed, our society has apparently decided that we will just continue to tolerate these things to mollify the gun fetishists.

[Dr_Scholl]

10. Of course it was gang related.

Who meets up at a Wal mart parking lot at 4:30 in the morning for something positive?

[shadowrider]

11. I don't know, maybe they were getting to work early?

[bushisanidiot]

12. Iranians who want to sell uranium to a mad scientist who thinks he can

use a delorian for time travel

[Ashgrey77]

23. HA

[Aristus]

30. They were Libyans, not Iranians.

Sorry, I have friends in Iran, and if it weren't for the Ayatollahs running the place, Iran would be a close U.S. ally. I feel the need to stick up for the people...

I'm sure Libyans have their own American advocates, and I'll let them do their own talking...

[PavePusher]

19. People car-pooling for work, meeting up for a bike ride/camping trip/etc....

...night-shifters getting off work...

There are multitude of possibilities.

The world doesn't shut down between sun-set and sun-rise. I think I've mentioned this before on D.U.

[HelenWheels]

5. Guns used?

I have noticed with the last few multiple shooting the guns used have not been identified. They weren't identified at this site and I have not seen what guns were used at the church in WI.

Is this an attempt to protect the reputations of assault weapons?

[riverbendviewgal]

7. You may have a point there

Too scary down there for me...

[petronius]

24. "Handgun", according to the updated article

As to your question, I really doubt it. I just don't see any possibility that there's a media-wide effort to control language, with the aim of benefiting gun-rights (i.e. anti-AWB) advocacy...

[pipoman]

31. Most media reports these days aren't even written in English..

[obamanut2012]

33. Wrong -- the make, model, and caliber of all the shooting guns have been reported

Zero assault weapons. Handguns and one semi-automatic .223.

[riverbendviewgal]

8. Nothing in CNN yet

guess it's just another shooting.

[RKP5637]

17. Yeah, nothing news worthy for CNN (just another shooting), but some trite about Obama from some

birthers would be headlined. n/t

[AlphaCentauri]

9. did the shooter bough the ammunition at walmart? n/t

[shadowrider]

13. Is that illegal? If not, it doesn't matter n/t

[Katashi_itto]

15. We have our own NRA lobbyist here

[shadowrider]

16. Huh?

[Javaman]

14. Clearly Wal-Mart is at fault...

they didn't have a .50 cal machine gun nest on the roof.

[KansDem]

21. Well then they'd have to employ someone to man it.

Gotta cut labor costs, you know!

But, you could turn the responsibility over to The Greeter. He's already on the payroll and standing in the front entrance anyway!

[Javaman]

29. See, now you are being "proactive".

Cheers!

[octothorpe]

18. Eeeek. I used to go to the HEB right across the street from that Walmart...

Talked to someone who knows all the people involved. Apparently they are in their late teens.

[efhmc]

25. Go by there on a regular basis but never at 4:30 in the morning.

[bucolic_frolic]

20. Daily event now

Sometimes I'm reminded of lemmings, rats in an overcrowded maze, or
ant colonies.

What will it take to end the carnage? I am without ideas.

[greiner3]

22. Just one more reason;

Not to go to Wally Mart!

[triplepoint]

26. And the Darwin Award for this year goes to....TEXAS!

They sure know how to prove the obvious there.....over and over again...ad nauseum!

[samsingh]

28. repugs actually

[samsingh]

27. if everyone in the parking lot was armed, maybe they could have shot him before he shot them

unfortunately, this would result in cases of preemptive shooting in error.

Texas doesn't have enough guns.

sarcasm off.

[Ilsa]

32. Where is this? Is this in Texas?

I'm not familiar with Cedar Park, or The Statesman. (is that a new name for the Austin-American Statesman?)

[octothorpe]

34. Yes, it's in Texas. Cedar Park is on the northern border of Austin.

I lived in Cedar Park for a few years and I just identified myself as living in Austin.