The second officer, who was in close proximity, was also shot but was able to return fire. It is uncertain if the first officer discharged his weapon. Both were wearing bulletproof vests.
“I guess you can call it what you want. It sounds like an ambush to me,” Tyler said.
The Walmart Supercenter was open for business at the time but is now closed.
Cynthia Ayala was on the other side of the store in a dressing room when she heard the gunfire but didn’t at first realize what she heard.
“I thought it was like pallets falling. I never thought it would be gunshots,” Ayala said.
She said the shots came one after another and then it became apparent they were bullets.
“I was just really scared as to where they would fall,” Ayala said.
She came out of the dressing room when things calmed down. She said employees then escorted her and other shoppers to the store’s garden center.
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It is unknown how many people were in the store at the time.
The names of the officers have not been released.
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