Nigerian Citizen In US Shoots 5 Over Girl

An 18-year-old Nigerian-American teenager, Soloman Onwukaife, is being held by the police in Austin, Texas USA for shooting five people in an earlier dispute over a girl at Walmart Store.



Onwukaife and those shot agreed to meet at the Walmart store for a fight after the dispute at a different location.


“This stemmed from a party that occurred possibly somewhere either in Williamson County or Leander, in which there was alcohol consumed at that party,” Henry Fluck, Cedar Park Police Chief said in a press statement.

According to the police, fight broke out in the Walmart parking lot and Onwukaife began shooting, hitting five people. The incident took place at a time when there were a few customers in the Walmart store parking lot. They said no Walmart employee or customer was injured. The store closed briefly as police sealed-off the area conducting investigations and re-opened at 9 a.m.

“This morning at 4:30 a.m. I heard a ‘pop, pop, pop,’ like firecrackers. All of a sudden I saw police and ambulance,” an unidentified woman told reporters.

19-year-old Shayne Davis, 22-year-old Leland McGlocklin, 19-year-old Zacharia Gietl, 18-year-old Cody McGrath and an unidentified victim were wounded and taken to St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center. Davis, McGlocklin and McGrath remain in critical condition. Gietl, was treated and released the same day (Sunday). Onwukaife who suffered facial injuries was treated and handed back to police. He has been charged in court with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the incident.

Gietl told police the dispute began when a man choked a wo-man at a nearby party earlier in the evening (Saturday) and several people agreed to fight at the Walmart parking lot. He said he was not at the party but went to the parking lot to stop his friends from continuing the fight.