About a week after 22 people were killed by a gunman at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, police arrested a man at the Walmart store in Springfield Missouri who showed up wearing body armour. His presence caused panicked shoppers to flee the store.
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Springfield police posted on Facebook that "an armed individual" was arrested. No shots were fired.
Police official Lt. Mike Lucas was quoted as saying that the man showed up Thursday afternoon wearing body armor and military-style clothing. He walked inside the Walmart carrying a "tactical rifle" and another gun. Lucas says the man had more than 100 rounds of ammunition and n off-duty officer held him at gunpoint till the police arrived.
He says: "His intent obviously was to cause chaos here, and he did that," Lucas said.
