Amarillo, Texas Police Shoot Dead Walmart Employee Who Took Hostages After Dispute

[From article]
Amarillo police say an armed Walmart employee likely upset for being passed over for a promotion took two people hostage before being shot and killed by officers inside the store near Interstate 27 and Georgia Street.
The man was identified by police as Mohammad Moghaddam, 54. The incident began around 11:06 a.m. and was over by 12:22 p.m.
Both hostages are safe.
According to police, the incident began with one or two gunshots believed to be fired into the ceiling by the checkout area. Moghaddam then took a manager and another employee hostage in a management area of the store.
At some point, SWAT officers entered the Walmart building.
Lt. Erick Bohannon, with the special crimes unit, said as the SWAT team was getting into place a hostage ran out of an office. Moghaddam pursued the hostage and ran into officers with a weapon still in his hand.
Two SWAT officers then opened fire and killed Moghaddam, Bohannon said.

http://amarillo.com/news/latest-news/2016-06-14/amarillo-police-responding-active-shooter-walmart

Walmart employee killed by police after taking hostages, gunshots
Posted: June 14, 2016 - 11:29am
By GLOBE-NEWS STAFF

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[From article]
An armed, disgruntled employee of a Texas Walmart took two people hostage inside the superstore Tuesday morning before he was shot and killed by a SWAT team, police said.
Authorities responded to an “active shooter” situation with possible hostages at a Walmart in Amarillo, TX on Interstate 27 and Georgia Street at around 11 a.m. local time, officials said.
About two hours later, officers with the Amarillo Police Department shot and killed the gunman, identified as 54-year-old Mohammad Moghaddam, police said.
Police found two uninjured hostages with the gunman inside the chain store.
The Amarillo Police Department tweeted that the gunman was “shot by APD SWAT and is…dead. Hostages inside are safe.”
No one else was injured or killed besides Moghaddam.
Cops said there was a previous “work-related dispute” between Moghaddam and his manager who was one of the two hostages.
The official Twitter account for the city of Amarillo warned people to “avoid” the Walmart as the incident unfolded.
Witnesses told ABC 7 Amarillo that the shooter was an employee that took a colleague hostage, the news channel reported.
“As soon as we heard about the situation at our store in Amarillo, Texas, we acted immediately,” Walmart said in a statement.
“All customers and our two associates who were held hostage are safe. This was a very difficult situation and we are thankful for the quick response from law enforcement,” the statement read.

http://nypost.com/2016/06/14/amarillo-police-respond-to-armed-person-inside-a-walmart/

Gunman shot dead by cops after taking hostages in Walmart
By Sophia Rosenbaum and Natalie Musumeci
June 14, 2016 | 1:09pm | Updated
New York Post

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Mohammad Moghaddam, 54, Walmart employee shot Dead by Police

[From article]
The gunman shot dead by police inside a Walmart in Texas has been identified as an employee at the store who had a work-related dispute with one of the people he took hostage.
Mhammad Moghaddam, 54, took two people hostage, including a manager with whom he had a work-related dispute, at the store in Amarillo, police said.
He was shot dead by SWAT team members on Tuesday afternoon, the Amarillo Police Department said. The two hostages were released and are not injured.
Police said their initial investigation indicates that there was a dispute between Moghaddam and management over a promotion.
Officers were dispatched to the Walmart at I-27 and Georgia Street on Canyon Drive on an active shooter call at 11.06am, the Amarillo Police Department said.
They determined that the suspect entered the store and fired at least one shot toward the ceiling.
The initial report to police said that he had taken a hostage and gone into an office at the back of the store.
Responding officers from multiple agencies arrived at the store and entered. Police confirmed that the suspect fired no further shots after the first one.
The SWAT continued a search of the store for the gunman, who had barricaded himself into the office.
At around 12.20pm, SWAT officers saw a person who they believed to be the only hostage come out of the office. Upon entering the room, they saw the second hostage.
‘The suspect was still armed with a handgun and was a threat to the hostage and the officers,’ a police spokesman said.
The officers fired shots, which hit the suspect. Police say he died immediately.
Both hostages were escorted to safety and examined by paramedics. Neither was injured.
Amarillo police officers, sheriff's deputies from Randall and Potter Counties, as well as Texas highway patrolmen were on the scene, officials said.
SWAT teams and bomb robots were also present. The store is closed as authorities continue their investigation.
APD’s Special Crimes Unit is handling the investigation as it is an officer-involved shooting, the department said.
Investigators have not determined how many shots were fired.
The two SWAT officers have been placed on administrative leave, which is standard protocol.
‘There is no indication that this had anything to do with terrorism or the shooting that happened over the weekend in Orlando,’ a statement from the Amarillo Police Department said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3641366/Active-shooter-takes-hostages-Walmart-Amarillo-Texas.html

Gunman, 54, shot dead by SWAT team at a Texas Walmart was an employee who had work dispute with manager he took hostage
Mohammad Moghaddam took two people hostage on Tuesday
The 54-year-old was an employee at the store in Amarillo, Texas
One of the hostages was a manager that he had a work dispute with
The gunman was shot dead by responding SWAT team members
By ANTON NILSSON and KHALEDA RAHMAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 11:59 EST, 14 June 2016 | UPDATED: 21:39 EST, 14 June 2016

Two Policemen Shot at Arizona Walmart, Suspect Shot Dead

[From article]
Two officers were shot after being called to remove a trespasser from a Chandler, Arizona, Walmart Saturday morning.
The officers are in stable condition, although one is in surgery but expected to recover.
The suspect is dead, authorities said.
Police were called around 6.30am regarding a trespasser at the store, said Chandler police spokesman Seth Tyler.
The officers encountered the unidentified male suspect at the front of the store, just past the greeters' area.
According to witnesses, the first officer entered the store and was fired upon immediately by the suspect, Tyler said.
The second officer, who was in close proximity, was also shot but was able to return fire.
It is uncertain if the first officer discharged his weapon. Both were wearing bulletproof vests.
'I guess you can call it what you want. It sounds like an ambush to me,' Tyler said.
The Walmart Supercenter was open for business at the time but is now closed.
Cynthia Ayala was on the other side of the store in a dressing room when she heard the gunfire but didn't at first realize what she heard.



'I thought it was like pallets falling. I never thought it would be gunshots,' Ayala said.
She said the shots came one after another and then it became apparent they were bullets.
'I was just really scared as to where they would fall,' Ayala said.
She came out of the dressing room when things calmed down. She said employees then escorted her and other shoppers to the store's garden center.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3555329/2-officers-shot-suspect-dead-Walmart-n-Phoenix-suburb.html

Two officers are shot and a suspect is killed at an Arizona Walmart after police are called to remove an early-morning trespasser
Police were called to assist with a trespassing situation at around 6.30am on Saturday
Witnesses said a man ambushed the officers, who were able to return fire The suspect is dead, according to a Chandler, Arizona, police spokesman
The officers are in stable condition and one is undergoing surgery
By KALHAN ROSENBLATT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED: 13:00 EST, 23 April 2016 | UPDATED: 22:05 EST, 23 April 2016

If The Math Don't Work, Repeal It, So We Can Find Out What Is Happening

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No sooner had the president charged that those who claimed the economy is in trouble were “peddling fiction” than U.S. stocks posted their worst ten-day start to a year in history. Walmart announced it was closing 154 stores in the U.S. putting 10,000 U.S. jobs on the block. [. . .] Macy’s announced it was closing 36 stores and 27 Kmart and Sears stores were also to be shuttered. [. . .] Consumers simply are running out of money to buy things.
To be sure, the global economy is shaky right now.[. . .] the global recession looks to be more severe than the last one.
1.[. . .] a lot of municipalities and states are already a lot more stressed than they were in 08 and U.S. gov[ernment] debt is much higher.
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4. Policy makers and central bankers seem even more clueless than ever after having embarked on an even larger worldwide binge to cure the hangover, [. . .] from their last binge.
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Amid all the factors behind the tailspin of our and the world’s economies it is obvious that the grand progressive schemes based -- as they certainly are -- on ignoring reality play a critical part. [. . .] Walmart, [. . .] responding to demands to raise the minimum wage, [. . .] raised wages above the minimum. Critics of raising the minimum wage argued that that would raise prices, negatively affect sales and reduce employment rolls. It seems that it did.
In economic terms, we are in the worst possible situation: politicians and bureaucrats with no respect for reality support programs which depend on an ever increasing supply of other peoples’ money at a time when there isn’t such money to be had [. . .]
Reason sets out the dilemma succinctly:
Sanders has built his popularity almost exclusively on promises to spend more money [. . .] Sanders hasn't been specific about where the money would come from, [. . .] his plans require massive tax hikes not just on the rich but on the middle class, meaning his efforts at offering everyone an education could not only increase inequality [. . .] but also actually redistribute wealth upward.
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Puerto Rico is this week’s U.S. basket case with $70 billion in debt for which they have no means of repaying. Other states with unfunded enormous pension liabilities look to be lining up behind Puerto Rico [. . .] On a national scale, People (sic) who could add warned that ObamaCare would collapse with expenditures quickly exceeding revenue, and there’s no doubt that the death spiral is well underway.
This week Humana joined the list of insurers reporting big problems with Obamacare. PJ Media’s Stephen Green Commented:
As for the ObamaCare!!! cheaters -- well, it's not like the Democrats who authored this law weren't given plenty of warnings about the perverse incentives.
The net result is that more and more insurers can't afford to sell insurance to ObamaCare!!! customers -- the very people the law was ostensibly designed to help:
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"'We expect Humana will exit Health Insurance Exchange marketplaces in 2017 in light of this data.'"
This thing is coming off the rails, and a LOT of people are going to get crushed when it does.
Mere glitches to the innumerate progressives. I don’t know what they are up to where you live, but in Washington D.C. they are proposing a massive new paid 16-week family leave program which it is estimated could cost over $700 million a year. [. . .] In any event, it is most likely that if this passes, employers will hire fewer people and pay them less to compensate for the cost. Once again the bottom of the economic pyramid would bear the burden of the virtue signaling of those at the top.
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Walmart officials were more frank about the reasons the company was downsizing. He said the company cited the District’s rising minimum wage, now at $11.50 an hour and possibly going to $15 an hour if a proposed ballot measure is successful in November.
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Math is so hard for progressives. I expect any day now some Democrat in Congress will introduce a bill repealing it.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/peddling_fiction_or_repealing_math.html

January 17, 2016
'Peddling Fiction' Or Repealing Math?
By Clarice Feldman

Wal-Mart Refuses To Bake Cake With Confederate Flag, But Bakes One With ISIS Flag

ISIS cake baked by Wal-Mart after refusing to decorate a cake with an image of the Confederate flag. 

(courtesy ABC News)

[From article]
Wal-Mart is apologizing after a store in Louisiana rejected a customer’s request for a cake decorated with a Confederate battle flag, but gladly baked him a cake with a Islamic State flag on it.
Chuck Netzhammer told ABC News that his order last week for a Confederate flag cake with the words, “Heritage Not Hate,” was rebuffed at the bakery department of a Wal-Mart in Slidell, Louisiana. He said the store didn’t apply the same rule to imagery for Islamic State, the terrorist army also known by the acronyms ISIS and ISIL.
“I went back yesterday and managed to get an ISIS battle flag printed. ISIS happens to be somebody who we’re fighting against right now who are killing our men and boys overseas and are beheading Christians,” Mr. Netzhammer said.
Wal-Mart apologized and blamed it on a misunderstanding.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/29/wal-mart-nixes-cake-confederate-flag-oks-isis-cake/

Wal-Mart nixes cake with Confederate flag, OKs Islamic State cake
By S.A. Miller

The Washington Times

Monday, June 29, 2015

Christian Family Band Engages Arizona Police in Walmart Parking Lot

[From article]
A Cottonwood police video released Friday appears to show an officer shooting a man who was laying on the asphalt in a Walmart parking lot after fighting with a downed officer.
Cottonwood Police Chief Jody Fanning said that Enoch Gaver, 21, had disarmed Sgt. Jeremy Daniels and had shot him in the leg. He said Gaver was still armed with Daniels' gun when Officer Rick Hicks started hitting him with a baton.
After Hicks determined the baton had no effect, he resorted to shooting Gaver to death, Fanning said.
Hicks also shot and wounded David Gaver, who also had been on top of Daniels and had charged towards Hicks, Fanning said.
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Photos: YAVAPAI COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
Peter Gaver, Ruth Gaver, Nathaniel Gaver and Jeremiah Gaver were arrested in the brawl.
The incident began when a female Walmart employee tried to use a women's restroom and was prevented from doing so when she was pushed out of the way.
Nathan Gaver told police that his mother, Ruth, was using the restroom, and that he and his brother Jeremiah were guarding it.
Police are seen in another video snippet arriving at the scene, where a large group of people are standing near a Chevrolet Suburban. The brawl ensues almost immediately after the third and fourth officers arrive.
Fanning said he still does not understand why the Gavers chose to fight his officers, rather than simply speaking to them. He said the likely outcome of the call would have been a misdemeanor citation with no one going to jail if the Gavers had not escalated the incident.
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The officers and the Gavers are seen punching each other on the video. At some point, an officer attempts to use a stun gun to bring the Gavers under control, but that appears to have little effect.
After Daniels is seen on the ground, struggling with one of the Gavers, Hicks is seen using the asp to strike the man. Later, Hicks pulls out his gun. The video captures the flash from the gun's muzzle.
But even the fatal shooting doesn't end the brawl. Additional officers arrive on the scene and fight with other members of the Gaver family to bring them under control.
Five Gavers were arrested by police and booked into the Yavapai County Jail on a variety of charges, including aggravated assault on a police officer, hindering prosecution and resisting arrest.
The family was well-known in Boise, where at least three members played in a Christian band outside an Albertson's supermarket, where they would post a sign with a Biblical verse. The band was known as Matthew 24 Now, an apparent reference to the Second Coming.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2015/04/10/cottonwood-walmart-brawl-video/25598875/

Cottonwood police video captures deadly shooting

Jim Walsh

The Republic

azcentral.com

9:30 p.m. MST April 10, 2015

Woman Who Punched 70-year-old Woman Greeter At Walmart Sentenced to Five Years

Traumatized: In court, Suozzi broke down as she told the court how her life has changed since that attack. 'What she has taken away is irreplaceable, she has taken away my independence...she has taken away my joy and replaced it with trauma,' she said


Sentenced: Jacquetta Simmons, 27 (pictured) was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday for the attacking 70-year-old Walmart greeter Grace Suozzi, and fracturing the side of the elderly woman's face


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2235320/Woman-assaulted-elderly-Walmart-greeter-Christmas-Eve-gets-years-prison.html

[Video embedded]
Shocking video reveals moment woman shopper punched elderly Walmart greeter - as she is jailed for five years
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 12:35 EST, 19 November 2012 | UPDATED: 14:02 EST, 19 November 2012

Hundreds of FL Teens Invade Walmart After Party

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175195/300-strong-smash-mob-wreak-havoc-Wal-Mart-causing-1-500-damage.html

THREE HUNDRED teenagers 'smash mob' Wal-Mart wreaking havoc and causing $1,500 of damage
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 00:47 EST, 18 July 2012 | UPDATED: 00:58 EST, 18 July 2012


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http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2012-07-17/story/saturday-night-flash-mob-takes-over-jacksonville-wal-mart

Saturday night flash mob takes over Jacksonville Walmart
By Dan Scanlan
Posted: July 17, 2012 - 10:37am | Updated: July 17, 2012 - 5:03pm

Walmart Shopper Punches 70-year-old Greeter

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/woman-slugs-70-year-old-walmart-greeter-asks-receipt-article-1.996942

State Police

Mugshot of Jacquetta Simmons, 26, accused of punching Walmart worker Grace Suozzi, 70, in the face after being asked for a receipt for the items in her bag.

Woman slugs 70-year-old Walmart greeter after she asks to see receipt: Police
Elderly worker suffered fractures to the side of her face in attack
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York Daily News
Monday, December 26 2011, 1:53 PM

Walmart Works

Interesting Facts about this Giant Retailer….

Wal-Mart vs. The Morons

1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart every hour of every day.

2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute! Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.

3. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target +Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.

4. Wal-Mart employs 16 million people, is the world's largest private employer, and most speak English.

5. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.

6. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only fifteen years.

7. During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.

8. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.

9. Wal-Mart has approximately 3,900 stores in the USAof which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had five years ago.

10. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at Wal-Mart stores. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)

11. 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart.

You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the ground work for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy.

This should be read and understood by all Americans Democrats, Republicans, EVERYONE!!

To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature,

It is now official you are ALL corrupt morons:

a.. The U.S.Postal Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.

b.. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.

c.. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.

d.. War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor" and they only want more.

e.. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.

f.. Freddie Mac was established in 1970.

You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.

g.. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.

You have FAILED in every "government service" you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars….AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM?? MAYBE WE OUGHT TO KICK YOUR EGG-HEAD BUDDY BUMS OUT OF OFFICE AND HIRE WAL MART TO RUN THE GOVERNMENT ??? WAL-MART SEEMS TO KNOW HOW TO RUN A BUSINESS.......WHY DON'T YOU GUYS JUST ADMIT IT'S WAY BEYOND YOUR PAY GRADE, AND QUIT?