US mass shooting survivor files $50m lawsuit against Walmart – By Al Jazeera and News Agencies (Al Jazeera) / Nov 29, 2022
Lawsuit alleges Walmart failed to respond to warnings about attacker who opened fire in Virginia store, killing six.
A survivor of the deadly mass shooting at a Walmart store in the US state of Virginia last week has sued the company, alleging that she and other employees warned Walmart management about the attacker but that nothing was done.
Donya Prioleau, who filed the $50m lawsuit on Tuesday in a Virginia state court, said she worked as an overnight stocker with Andre Bing, the man accused of killing six co-workers on November 22 after opening fire in a Walmart breakroom in Chesapeake before killing himself.
The lawsuit alleges that Prioleau has experienced post-traumatic stress disorder, including physical and emotional distress, from witnessing the rampage. It also provides a long list of troubling signs displayed by the attacker that Prioleau claims managers failed to address.
“Bullets whizzed by Plaintiff Donya Prioleau’s face and left side, barely missing her,” the lawsuit reads. “She witnessed several of her coworkers being brutally murdered on either side of her.”
