The disturbing and disgusting aspect of Black Friday reared it’s ugly head early this morning as there were four shootings in three different states and two people were shot dead. The shootings happened as eager customers lined outside stores to get door-buster sales.
A 20-year-old man was shot dead and his brother was wounded in a shooting outside a Macy’s store in New Jersey early Friday morning. At around 1 a.m., the man was shot outside of Macy’s at the Hamilton Mall in Mays Landing, New Jersey.
A Walmart shopper was shot and killed just minutes after Black Friday door busters began on Thursday night in Reno, Nevada. At 6:05 p.m., five minutes before the Walmart opened, a fight erupted over a parking spot. One of the drivers shot the other man and killed him.
In Tennessee, a man suffered a gunshot wound after shots were fired at Wolfchase Galleria Mall in Memphis around 11.15 p.m. on Thursday.
Between 2006 and 2014, there have reportedly been seven deaths and 98 injuries during Black Friday shopping.
Maybe not get shot and just shop on Cyber Monday?