Three people killed in shooting at a Walmart store in the US

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Three people killed in shooting at a Walmart store in the US
Three people killed in shooting at a Walmart store in the US

New Delhi : Three people have been reported killed in a shooting incident at a Walmart store in Duncan, Oklahoma, said the police.

"We can confirm a shooting in Walmart parking lot," Duncan Police said in a statement. "One female and one male were deceased in (a) car and one male outside of the car. A handgun was found on scene."

Tera Mathis, spokeswoman for the Duncan Police Department, said names, ages and other personal details regarding the victims were not available.

However, no details have been revealed about the shooter, a report mentioned that the shooter has also been killed on the site.

The local police department has initiated the investigation in the matter. It is not clear if the shooting incident was the case of domestic violence or something else. The police department refused to comment on it for now.

Walmart spokesperson Payton McCormick told USA TODAY that none of their employees of staff member is involved in the incident.

“This was an isolated incident in the parking lot and was not an active shooter situation,” McCormick said.

Duncan is a city of about 25,000 people in Stephens County, about 80 miles south of Oklahoma City.

The shooting took place just days after the reopening of a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, that had been the scene of a mass shooting Aug. 3. That attack left 22 people dead in the parking lot and inside the Cielo Vista Supercenter.