[Cherie]

gunman shot and killed multiple people in a Walmart store late on Tuesday in the US state of Virginia, police and city officials said. Chesapeake Police Department officer Leo Kosinski told reporters at the scene they found "multiple fatalities and multiple injured parties" at the scene. One police officer spoke of no more than 10 people killed and multiple injured.

One of the dead included the shooter, he said. He is reported to have been the manager.

Rapid response officers entered the store "immediately" after they arrived, he added.

"We believe it is a single shooter and that single shooter is deceased at this time," he said.

The Telegraph