Family Dollar shooting: 1 dead in E. Ledbetter Drive shooting

DALLAS — Police hope surveillance video can assist them determine a person suspected of shooting and killing an worker at a Family Dollar retailer in Dallas.

Dallas police mentioned officers responded to a name on the retailer positioned at 1928 E. Ledbetter Drive. When officers arrived, Dallas police mentioned they discovered Tenery Walker, 46, inside the shop with a gunshot wound. 

Walker was taken to a neighborhood hospital the place he died, police mentioned. 

Police mentioned the preliminary investigation decided that Walker had stepped exterior and was confronted by an unknown man, who police mentioned Walker had beforehand requested to depart the shop. 

The suspect instantly shot Walker and ran from the situation, police mentioned. 

The suspect stays at massive, however no particulars have been launched on his id. 

“It’s all mindless,” mentioned buyer Calvin Wilson.

Employees from different Family Dollar shops have been referred to as in to the situation on Friday morning to assist clear up the shop.

“It’s very disturbing, as a result of I come right here typically throughout the week,” mentioned buyer LaSherrie Hogan.

“I’m like really torn apart this morning. I had no idea none of this was going on,” Hogan continued. 

This shooting comes days after a North Texas man shot and killed one other man suspected of stealing from a distinct Family Dollar.

Kevin Jackson, 47, was charged with homicide in the incident that occurred Nov. 29 on the retailer positioned at 3200 S. Lancaster Road. Dallas police mentioned Jackson is accused of shooting and killing a person suspected of shoplifting and arguing with retailer workers. Police mentioned Jackson had witnessed the struggle between the person and the shop workers earlier than he pulled out his gun and shot the person. 

Surveillance video from the shop confirmed the person hitting an worker and her preventing again earlier than he was shot by Jackson. 

Jackson had instructed police that he was involved for the protection of the staff on the retailer. 

Jackson faces homicide costs in that incident. 

“Family Dollars, I really wish they would upgrade their security. I love Family Dollars, but just sometimes I don’t feel really secure,” mentioned Hogan. 

Dollar Tree – Family Dollar’s company workplace launched the next assertion on Friday:

“We are shaken by the separate incidents at two of our Family Dollar shops in Dallas this week and our ideas and deepest condolences are with all of these affected. The security of consumers and associates is our high precedence. We are offering grief counselors for retailer associates and cooperating totally with native legislation enforcement.

We try to create a secure work and procuring setting by tailoring our retailer operations and safety for every retailer. We have procedures in place to finest reply to retailer security and safety incidents, and we’re regularly enhancing these and on-site safety methods in our shops.

Our retailer on Ledbetter is closed till Monday and our retailer on Lancaster is presently again open and working.” 

Dallas police say the investigation into Walker’s loss of life is ongoing.