Shooting in Cherryvale leaves one dead, one wounded

UPDATE: The names of those involved have been added.

A shooting at a grocery store in Cherryvale, Kansas, left one man dead and another wounded. Read the full press release below from the KBI:

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) is assisting the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and the Cherryvale Police Department with an investigation into a shooting that occurred Monday afternoon at a grocery store in Cherryvale.

On Monday, March 25, at approximately 3:35 p.m., the Cherryvale Police Department, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, and the Kansas Highway Patrol responded to the report of a man with a gun in the G&W Foods grocery store. When they arrived at the store at 216 N. Liberty St., they learned the armed man was an employee who was holding a coworker in an office in the northwest area of the store. They began to quickly evacuate employees and customers.

Soon after, gunshots were heard from the office. As authorities entered the office, the Montgomer County Chronicle says police witnessed 28-year-old Jamal Brown shoot himself. They also located his 39-year-old coworker, Luke Emmot, suffering from gunshot wounds.

Emmot was flown to a hospital in Joplin. He underwent surgery, and is expected to survive.

Brown was taken to a local hospital where he was stabilized and then flown to a Tulsa hospital. He later died from his injuries.

The investigation is ongoing. Nothing further will be released at this time.