According to authorities, Walmart mass shooter Andre Bing wrote a rambling “Death Note” in which he called his coworkers “idiots” and expressed rage over them comparing him to a legendary cannibal serial killer.
“They laughed at me and said that I was like Jeffrey Dahmer … Sorry everyone but I did not plan this I promise things just fell in place like I was led by Satan,” Bing wrote before slaughtering six of his colleagues in the break room at the start of their night shift Tuesday.
Dahmer, an infamous recluse, killed 17 young men, some of whom he attempted to make into sex zombies and others whose body parts he ate. 1994 saw his death in prison.
After the murders, which were followed by Bing’s suicide, Chesapeake, Virginia, police made Bing’s censored screed public. It had been found during a forensic examination of the suspect’s phone.
Officials also disclosed that lone Bing legally bought the murder weapon—a 9mm handgun—on the morning of the spree, despite having no prior criminal background.
The 31-year-old Bing expressed regret to God for what he was going to do and complained about being treated unfairly by his coworkers.
“My true intent was never to murder anyone believe it or not, I was actually one of the most loving people in the world if you would get to know me.”
“My only wish would have been to start over from scratch and that my parents would have paid closer attention to my social deficit,” Bing wrote.
While writing about noticing a “demonic aura” in a female coworker, he also criticized his colleague for never making an effort to get to know him.
The 31-year-old expressed sorrow that he had not been able to find a wife who would share his obsessions in one section, saying, “I merely wanted a wife that was similarly yoked as I and obsessed with thought; nevertheless, I didn’t deserve a wife.”
With the words, “I have a special place in my heart for her because my mother died from cancer,” Bing announced his intention to spare one of his coworkers who was ostensibly fighting cancer.
“My God forgive me for what I’m going to do,” he wrote as his closing line.
In the meantime, a Facebook post from 2017 has surfaced that implies Bing had a history of mental illness.
Pervis Bing, the brother of the shooter, stated in a status update from September 2017 that “life was kinda dark” because to his brother’s battle with paranoid schizophrenia.
The brother’s statement seems to support what Bing had stated about his mental health in his “Death Note”: “I failed my management team and everyone that ever loved me by convincing them I was normal.”
The 16-year-old victim of Tuesday’s shooting spree was officially identified by Chesapeake police on Friday as Fernando Chavez-Barron, a resident of Chesapeake.
Andre Bing’s youngest victim was Fernando Chavez-Barron, who was 16 years old.
The other fatalities were previously named as Brian Pendleton, 38; Kellie Pyle, 52; Lorenzo Gamble, 43; Randy Belvins, 70; and Tyneka Johnson, 22.
According to police, Bing, a night shift manager, entered the break room of the Walmart in Chesapeake just before 10:15 p.m. on Tuesday and started shooting at workers who were getting ready for work.
Bing appeared to target people, according to a coworker who survived the shooting, and fired at some victims after they had already been hit and appeared to be dead.
“The way he was acting — he was going hunting,” Jessica Wilczewski said. “The way he was looking at people’s faces and the way he did what he did, he was picking people out.”
Bing had a reputation for being an aggressive, if not hostile, the manager who once acknowledged having “anger issues,” according to some of his coworkers. He could also make people laugh, though, and he appeared to be coping with the typical workplace stresses that many people face.