At least 11 people were injured with a knife on Saturday in a Michigan supermarket in the north of the United States, local authorities announced.
A 42 -year -old suspect was put in police custody, said Michael Shea, the Grand County Sheriff Draw for a press conference. “According to the information we have, these are acts committed at random,” he said and added that “the victims had not determined in advance.”
Six people in critical condition
The suspect, who lives in Michigan, apparently acted alone and used a “folding knife.” “We can confirm that 11 victims are being attended,” the Hospital Hospital, Munson Medical Center on social networks.
Six of the victims were critical on Saturday night and five were seriously injured, said the same source. At least three people had to be operated, according to Mr. Shea. The victims are six men and five women.
The governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer said he was in contact with the authorities about this “horrible information.” The police were called at the end of the afternoon to inform an incident to the Walmart supermarket in the city, said Michigan’s police.
“Blood everywhere”
Julia Martell, a woman witnessing the scene, explained to the New York Times listening to screams and saw a man run a knife in her hand in the store’s department of the store.
According to her, the man pushed and stabbed people when moving around the store. This 30 -year -old scene said that he saw three people with injuries and “blood everywhere.”
Mr. Shea said that stab wounds began in the boxes saying that this type of violence was “very unusual” in the region. People in the supermarket “helped” the arrest of the suspect, he said.
Crossing City is a very popular tourist complex located on the shores of Lake Michigan. FBI deputy director Dan Bongino said his agents would provide “all the necessary support for the Grand Sheriff’s office to traverse in his research on the Walmart store.”
Source: BFM TV
