The youngest victim of the Virginia Walmart shooting was only 19. In Fernando Chavez-case, Barron's the first check he cashed was used to buy a present for his mother
A report claims that the teenager who was killed along with five of his coworkers at a Walmart in Virginia had recently started working there and had used his first salary to buy a present for his mother.
More than $14,000 has been raised for the family of 16-year-old Fernando Chavez-Barron, described as a "hardworking" and "modest" 11th-grade honors student who had recently gotten his driver's license and was a "amazing big brother."
Six workers, including him, were killed on Tuesday at the warehouse store in Chesapeake, a suburb of Norfolk.
Up until today, I was hoping it was all a dream," Joshua Trejo-Alvarado, a boyhood friend of Fernando's, told WTKR. A part of me says, "I wish he was still here with me."
The city of Chesapeake, which had first suppressed Fernando’s name owing to his age, publicly revealed Fernando Friday.
Andre Bing, a manager at a Walmart, went insane and opened fire on his coworkers at 10 p.m., before turning the gun on himself.
Virgil Wimmer, a cousin of Blevins's, told The Post that Blevins, 70, had worked at Walmart for "nearly 30 years" as part of a staff that organized items and determined prices. He announced to Wimmer a year ago that he was going to retire shortly because of his age.
"Laid-back" Blevins, as Wimmer put it, seemed to have changed his mind, and the reason was because "he really liked Walmart," Wimmer claimed.
He was "thrilled" to go to work every day, Wimmer added. That's how I learned he wasn't going into retirement after all.
A woman who began her career with Blevins twenty years ago at the company recalls working with him.
It was 20 years ago when...
Denise Black Brzenk, a coworker, said, "I had this Walmart friend" and included a photo of Blevins wearing a blue vest. Randy Blevins was his name.
Lorenzo Gamble, a custodian, was 43 years old when his mother, Linda, posted on Facebook that he had worked at the Chesapeake facility for 15 years. There was another store in Grassfield, only nine minutes away, where he was planning to transfer before the incident.
'What do I do now?' she penned. I feel like the universe has been flipped on its head.
Kellie Pyle, a 52-year-old mother, was aiming to tie the knot in 2023.
The future mother-in-law, Gwendolyn Bowe Baker Spencer, has shown her affection for her. Next year she was supposed to wed my son. Indeed, she was a fantastically generous human being.
Outside of the Walmart, a makeshift monument bearing the words "Our Hearts are with you" and a basket of flowers had been set up in honor of 22-year-old Tyneka Johnson.
Johnson "gelled" with everyone she met at Cannon's Blessed Tutoring Services, her tutor Casheba Cannon told the Washington Post. Johnson had her sights set on entering college throughout high school.
Michelle Johnson claimed her son, 38-year-old custodian Brian Pendleton, who had recently celebrated his 10-year anniversary with the company, was in the break room when Bing opened fire.
His mom used to say, "He always arrived to work early so he would be on time." He had a positive attitude toward his fellow employees.