Ohio cosmetics warehouse shooting leaves 1 dead, 5 wounded; gunman at large

A manhunt was underway successful Ohio connected Wednesday aft a gunman fatally changeable 1 idiosyncratic and wounded 5 others wrong a cosmetics and toiletries warehouse, constabulary said.

The suspect, identified arsenic Bruce Reginald Foster, was astatine enactment “for immoderate time” earlier the shooting started Tuesday astatine the KDC/One Cosmetics gathering successful New Albany, immoderate 15 miles northeast of Columbus, New Albany Police Chief Greg Jones said early Wednesday. When authorities arrived connected the country astir 11 p.m., they discovered six radical suffering from gunshot wounds wrong the “large building,” including 1 idiosyncratic who was pronounced dormant connected the scene

None of the victims has been identified, but they each appeared to beryllium coworkers of the suspected shooter, Jones said. He described the shooting arsenic a “targeted benignant of attack,” but stopped abbreviated of providing a motive, noting that determination were nary reports of immoderate benignant of confrontation oregon quality that would person prompted the deadly violence.

Jones aboriginal Wednesday said officers are moving “to locate” and drawback Foster, though they bash not judge helium poses a wide menace to the public.

A firearm was recovered from the warehouse, which was packed with astir 150 radical astatine the clip of the shooting. They were each evacuated to a neighboring building, and officers are inactive moving to interrogation galore of them.

Jones said officers are dealing with a connection obstruction and noted galore of them didn’t cognize what had happened until they were evacuated, Jones said.

“This has been a precise tragic situation. Our thoughts spell retired to the victims, their families and everybody that works astatine this facility” Jones said. “This is thing that we hoped would ne'er hap successful our community, but we hole for it, and this is wherever we are now.”