Mississippi police fatally shot a woman who was holding a Walmart employee in the megastore hostage after she refused to back down.
Cellphone footage of the incident shows Corlunda McGinister, 21, holding onto a woman wearing a Walmart vest with her left hand and waving a gun in her right hand demanding to see a news anchor Wednesday in Richland, Mississippi.
“Get a news anchor here, now!” she yells. “Get a news anchor here now.”
McGinister then pulls the hostage to another section of the store.
“Hey, I ain’t trying to hurt nobody,” she proclaims.
“Then, why don’t you let her go?” A man who seems to be recording asks.
McGinister, who was from Arkansas, also shakes and taps her foot and mumbles inaudible words to herself.
According to WLBT, Richland Police and Rankin County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the chaotic scene around 5:45 p.m. McGinister reportedly got…
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