A Walmart employee is dead after a shooting inside the store on Chef Highway in New Orleans.
"The NOPD is investigating a homicide that occurred today (January 6, 2020) in the 4300 block of Chef Menteur Highway that claimed the life of one victim and injured another," according to a news release.
Police say it happened just before 6:30pm
An off duty officer in the store caught the suspect as he tried to flee.
"Officers responded to a call of an officer in need of assistance at the Walmart store. Upon arrival, officers located an NOPD officer who was working a secondary employment security detail at the store in custody of a male subject."
Police found a man "down in an aisle of the store with a gunshot wound to the chest."
The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
"A second victim identified in this incident, a female, was transported to a local hospital with a gunshot wound to the foot and was last listed in stable condition."





