Shortly before the horrific incident, a store clerk who survived the shooting at a Walmart in Virginia claimed she’d complained about the shooter’s “disturbing conduct,” but nothing was done.

A week after six people were slain at the Chesapeake store where Donya Prioleau, an employee, had worked for more than a year, she filed a lawsuit against Walmart.

Andre Bing, 31, who had worked at the business since 2010 and was the overnight “team lead,” was identified as the culprit, who committed suicide after the incident.

Bing had a “long-standing pattern of disturbing and threatening behaviour” that was well known among staff, according to the lawsuit. He allegedly told coworkers that “if he was ever fired, he would retaliate and ‘people will remember my name,'” and claimed he once “ran over a turtle with a lawnmower just to see its [guts] spray out, which made him hungry and reminded him of ramen noodles.”

According to the lawsuit, Prioleau filed an official complaint with Walmart on Sept. 10 after Bing made offensive remarks regarding her age, asking her, “Isn’t your lady clock ticking? Shouldn’t you be having kids?” 

Prioleau reportedly said that he called her a bitch and “had harassed her for being poor and being short.”

Prioleau’s mother visited the business that day to speak with the manager about Bing since she was so worried about Prioleau’s safety. The store manager allegedly said, “There was nothing that could be done about Mr Bing because he was favoured by management,” according to the lawsuit.

Prioleau is suing Walmart for $50 million in damages, alleging that the shooting left her with post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms as well as knee and arm injuries from running away.

Lorenzo Gamble, 43; Brian Pendleton, 38; Kellie Pyle, 52; Randall Blevins, 70; Tyneka Johnson, 22; and 16-year-old Fernando Chavez-Barron have been named as the six victims.