Way too close to home

We shop here. It's a bit less than 3 miles from the house. And the fact that a man would drive into the parking lot for no apparent reason and shoot two employees without cause is beyond disturbing!


A northwest Valley man seething with anger turned a Wal-Mart Supercenter parking lot into a shooting gallery Tuesday, police said, leaving two store employees dead and investigators stumped for a motive.

"He just went crazy," said Chuck O'Leary, 26, of Peoria, whose wife, Kara, 28, witnessed part of the mayhem as she walked into the store shortly after 1 p.m. "

She said the guy just went ballistic and starting firing off shots."

The suspect, identified by police as Ed Lui, 53, was tracked to a nearby retirement community and arrested a few hours later.

David Kost, 25, said he was in his vehicle in the parking lot when he heard about seven shots fired. He ducked to the floorboards and came out when the firing stopped.

He said he saw one man, clearly dead, lying half under a car. Then someone shouted that there was another injured man, he said.

Kost and two other men, one who asked for rubber gloves and an emergency medical kit, rushed over to the man.

The victim was still alive when they found him in the shopping cart corral. Kost said he asked the man if he could hear him or if he was all right.

"He just looked at me," Kost said. "Every couple seconds, he would quiver."

Kost, a resident of Arrowhead Ranch, was horrified that the shooting happened in his community. "I live in a nice area of town," he said.

"This doesn't happen here."