Phoenix Walmart Shooting: 1 Person Injured As Suspects Flee

A woman was reportedly shot and wounded at a Walmart near 35th Avenue and Bethany Home Road after two other women got into a fight that escalated into a shooting on Sunday.

According to the Phoenix police, a surveillance video displayed two women getting into a physical fight when one pulled out a gun and fired several times, missing to target the person she was arguing with.

Police were called out to the store around 8 p.m., wherein they found a woman with a gunshot wound inside. The victim, fortunately, has non-life-threatening injuries. Police believed the woman who was shot was just a bystander; she was not the intended target and had no other involvement in the altercation. The two women involved in the violent brawl left the store before police arrived.

"The victim was extricated from the store to fire personnel. Officers conducted a search of the business and no other victims or suspects were located," stated by Phoenix Police Sgt. Philip Krynsky. "The suspect appeared to have missed the intended target and struck the victim, who was unrelated to the altercation."

In other news, two people have been reportedly shot in a possible road rage incident on Saturday night in North Highlands. Sacramento County Sheriff's Office deputies were called to help fire crews on the said shooting in the parking lot of the Walmart along Watt Avenue. According to the police, both of the people who were injured were in a car when the shooting happened. The pair were rushed to the hospital and were expected to survive their injuries.

Edward Joel Rosario-Jimenez, the man who fatally shot Jonathan Martinez, 22, and Nicolette Law, 20, in another Walmart incident on Feb. 26, 2021, pleaded guilty, on Thursday, to eight charges, including two counts of third-degree murder, in exchange for the death penalty to be dropped. A fixed prison sentence of 45 years to 100 years has been ordered. As part of the plea deal, Rosario-Jimenez waived all of his appeal rights. Meanwhile, the victim's mother said she wanted a life sentence for the man who killed her youngest child.