Gun-related incidents surge at Walmarts after El Paso shooting

At least four gun-related incidents have been reported at Walmarts across the country — including a murder outside a California store — since Saturday’s mass shooting at an outlet in El Paso, according to local reports.

In the latest incident, an unidentified man walked into a Florida Walmart shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday and asked a clerk “for anything that would kill 200 people,” KIRO-TV reported.

“They announced over the intercoms for everybody to leave the store,” one shopper at the Port St. Lucie store told the station. “One of the employees said there was a guy with a gun and that’s when everybody was running out.”

Cops were still looking for the man, who walked out amid the chaos, according to the outlet.

A store in Federal Way, Wash., was evacuated Wednesday afternoon when a man who appeared to have a gun walked in and threatened to open fire, KIRO-TV reported this week.

Police wouldn’t immediately say what threats were made and the department did not return a request for comment.

Early Wednesday morning, a man was shot dead in the parking lot of a Walmart in Livermore, Calif.

Police said the suspect, Johnathon Michael Inocencio, 30, shot the victim in the torso at 4:06 a.m. then fled the scene in either a 2014 white Ford Explorer or a 2000 white and red Tioga motorhome.

On Tuesday, customers fled a Baton Rouge Walmart in panic when police said guns were drawn during an argument in the customer service line — initially reported to police as an active shooter.

The sheriff’s office later said no shots were fired, but one of the men did draw a gun after the other went to his car and came back with a pair of scissors, The Advocate reported.

Both men were charged with disturbing the peace.

All of the incidents have made headlines in the wake of Saturday’s deadly shooting in El Paso.

Patrick Crusius, 21, is facing capital murder charges in Texas for allegedly shooting 22 people dead at a Walmart there.

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