Wal-Mart Shooting: 2 Dead, 2 Deputies Hurt

PORT ORCHARD, Wash. - Sheriff's officers say a shootout Sunday afternoon at a Wal-Mart in Washington state left two people dead and two sheriff's deputies wounded.

Kitsap County sheriff's spokesman Scott Wilson says a man was shot to death by deputies outside the store in Port Orchard Sunday afternoon, while a young woman died after being taken to a Tacoma hospital.

Wilson says officers received a call about a suspicious person at the store. He says deputies tried to talk to the man, who then ran and began shooting. Three deputes, including the two wounded, returned fire.

Wilson says he doesn't know whether the two people who were killed knew each other.

The incident began at about 3:45 p.m. and few details were known, including what sparked the shootings, Boyer said.

Witness Victor Meyers told KOMO-TV that the first shot was followed by six more in rapid succession.

"I heard one shot, which I thought was a car backfiring, and then several more reported back, which I knew to be gunfire," Meyers said.

He said he saw a female deputy running toward a victim on the ground before he and other witnesses were hustled from the scene.

The store was immediately locked down, and customers weren't being allowed to leave.

"No one is allowed in or out until further notice by police," customer Mike Lambert told KIRO-TV by phone from inside the store.

Port Orchard is about 15 miles west of Seattle across Puget Sound.