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Argumentative Essay: Walmart's Murder Case

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A Denver man was convicted of murder for randomly killing 3 people in a Walmart. The shooting happened on November 1st, 2017 and the man was arrested the next day. His name was Scott Ostrem, 47, and after he killed the people he fled the Walmart and the police looked for him through the night. The police says that the killing as random and there was no motive for the shooting. Scott killed two men and one woman near a cash register and all three victims were from Denver. People in Walmart say that everyone was trying to get to the exits but for some reason the door wasn’t opening and people were saying "he 's got a gun!".

In my opinion, people are just crazy. It is just crazy that people will randomly walk into a store and break out in gun
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