A white gunman fatally shot a black man in the back of the head inside a Kroger and then killed a black woman in the grocery store’s parking lot before exchanging gunfire with a bystander, police said Thursday. Officers then captured the suspect as he tried to flee.
They said it was unclear what prompted Wednesday’s shooting responding to an earlier account from a witness that when confronted with another white man during the incident, the suspect said: “Whites don’t shoot whites.”
At a news conference Thursday, The Jeffersontown police chief, Sam Rogers surveillance video shows the suspect tried unsuccessfully to enter the First Baptist church in Jeffersontown before he went to the Kroger. The church is headed by a black pastor and has a large African-American membership.
The FBI stated that it “is evaluating the evidence to determine if there were any violations of federal law.”
He also said the miscreant, 51-year-old Gregory Alan Bush, perhaps had a history of mental illness, as local news outlets have reported.
Bush was jailed on $5 million bond Thursday for killing two people and 10 counts of felony wanton endangerment.
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