#8 - Naomi Irion
18-year-old Naomi Irion went missing after shopping at a Walmart in Fernley, Nevada,
on March the 12th of 2022. Surveillance cameras had last captured the young woman in the store’s
parking lot. When investigators reviewed the security footage, they noticed that
a suspicious man in a hooded sweatshirt had gotten into Irion’s car, at around 5:30 am.
The vehicle then drove away and was recovered by the authorities at a nearby industrial park,
three days later, but Irion remained missing. An extensive search effort was then set into motion
with hundreds of people reportedly volunteering to comb through the vast desert area
surrounding Fernley hoping to find a trace of the missing woman. Then, on March the 29th,
the Churchill County Sheriff’s Office received a tip that led to the discovery of human remains,
which were ultimately identified as Irion’s. 41-year-old Troy Driver was taken into custody
and held at Lyon County Jail, in Yerington, on suspicion of kidnapping and murdering the victim.
According to a criminal complaint, Driver was alleged to have assaulted Irion
before fatally shooting her in the head and chest. He was also accused of destroying her cell phone
and changing the tires on his truck to evade police detection. The man’s pretrial hearing
was scheduled to take place in Fernley Justice Court on July the 5th of 2022.
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and send it in to us on Instagram today! #7 - The Greenfield Parking Lot Incident
On August the 9th of 2021, Massachusetts woman Jennifer William-Frangie noticed that
a dog had been left unattended in a car parked outside of a Big Y supermarket in Greenfield.
William-Frangie waited over 40 minutes for the owner to come back but ultimately intervened. She
opened the door of the vehicle in order to render aid to the dog, which had reportedly been panting
heavily. When the animal’s owner returned, after shopping in the store with her husband and child,
she became enraged at William-Frangie’s decision to break into her car. The ensuing shouting match
was filmed by another witness, later named as Joshua Candelaria. As was shown in the video,
William-Frangie justified her actions by noting that the dog had been panting, its fur was soaking
wet, and the temperature had risen to about 85 degrees Fahrenheit. The two women threatened
to call the police on one another, while the owner eventually started launching expletives and racial
slurs at Candelaria, as she and her family got into their car. The end of the confrontation
was punctuated by the woman’s husband, who allegedly tossed a glass bottle out the window
as they drove away from the scene. #6 - The Chullora Woolworths Brawl
In March of 2020, at the onset of the global pandemic, shoppers at a Woolworths in the
Australian city of Chullora fought over items they needed and assumed would be in scarce supply
during their extended stays at home. On the morning of March the 7th, as captured in a cell
phone video by witnesses at the store, three women got into a heated exchange regarding toilet paper
and the initial row ultimately turned violent. One of the individuals involved in the conflict had
asked a female shopper with a cartful of toilet paper rolls if she could take just one packet,
to which the woman replied “no”. A shouting match subsequently ensued, which then led to a
physical altercation. The three women slapped and shoved one another as bystanders pleaded with them
to stop. Store employees eventually managed to diffuse the situation and separate the women,
and the police were called to the scene. In a public statement by Acting Police Inspector
Andrew New, the people of New South Wales were urged not to resort to violence amid
rising tensions related to the pandemic. #5 - Crystal Reyna Gonzalez
Police in Ontario, Canada, received multiple reports that two infants had been left inside a
locked vehicle in the parking lot of a Walmart, on the evening of July the 8th of 2018. The situation
proved particularly concerning to witnesses given that, on the day in question, temperatures in the
area had risen to nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The first individual to spot the children was a
man named Curtis Owens, who fruitlessly attempted to open the vehicle’s doors before running inside
the store to alert its staff. He subsequently started filming a Facebook Live video while he
and other anxious shoppers awaited the arrival of emergency services. The cell phone footage showed
the vehicle being inspected by multiple police and fire crews before its owner, 34-year-old Crystal
Reyna Gonzalez, finally emerged from the store roughly 11 minutes after Owens had begun filming.
Gonzalez unlocked the car so that first responders could remove the distressed children, and she was
subsequently questioned by the police. It was later reported that, although the woman had left
her vehicle’s windows slightly cracked to allow for a small amount of ventilation, she hadn’t
turned on the air conditioner. Consequently, the temperature inside the car had become dangerously
high. Gonzalez was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment, while the two infants were
given medical attention before being placed in the custody of child protective services.
#4 - Ben Corser
British software engineer Ben Corser was gunned down while picking up groceries at a supermarket
in Colima, Mexico, on the evening of May the 24th of 2022. According to the victim’s family,
he’d been living in Mexico since January of that same year and, at the time of the incident,
had been staying with a Mexican-American family near Colima. Corser had reportedly been returning
to his host’s residence, after spending time in Guadalajara, when he and 2 young men from the
household stopped to get some food. As they were sitting in their parked car outside the store, all
three men were fatally shot by an unidentified gunman, whose motive, as of the case’s latest
updates, remained unclear. Investigators indicated that there were no signs of “robbery,
kidnapping or anything else” and that it was likely the victims were simply “in the wrong
place at the wrong time”. Subsequent reports detailed how Corser’s body would be returned to
the United Kingdom for a funeral ceremony that was scheduled to be held near his home in Cornwall.
#3 - The Astoria Safeway Altercation Washington woman Moe Darling McLeod got into
an altercation with another shopper in the parking lot of a Safeway supermarket in Astoria, Oregon,
on August the 8th of 2021. According to subsequent reports on the incident, 57-year-old McLeod had
taken issue with a bumper sticker on a parked car. The message of the sticker was “Abolish ICE” and
it referred to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. The vehicle’s owner,
identified as Alyssa Cuellar, began to film the woman and her husband as they inspected the
sticker. McLeod then angrily confronted Cuellar, shouting a barrage of profanities at her in
front of several witnesses. Cuellar sarcastically remarked that the woman was being a “great example
for her child”, upon noticing she was accompanied by a boy. After fruitlessly demanding that she
stop filming her, McLeod charged the other shopper and punched her in the face, knocking the cell
phone out of her hands in the process. Cuellar was also pulled to the ground, at which point McLeod
allegedly pushed her against the cement, causing lacerations and bruises to her chest, back,
and knee. Shortly thereafter, Cuellar called 9-1-1 to report the altercation, which ultimately led to
McLeod’s arrest on charges of felony assault, disorderly conduct, and criminal mischief.
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#2 - Gabriel Maness
On the morning of April the 17th of 2016, Virginia man Gabriel Maness went to a Farm Fresh
supermarket, in Williamsburg, to buy doughnuts for his pregnant wife. Minutes after entering the
store, the 34-year-old, later reported as being a veteran of the United States Army, was fatally
shot several times in the head and body while out of the view of security cameras. It was determined
that Maness’ mortal gunshots wounds had been inflicted by a man named Brian Hicks, aged 57.
Investigators later revealed that the 2 men hadn’t known each other prior to the attack, which Hicks
had perpetrated “inexplicably, without warning, and without any just cause or provocation”.
Following a trial at Williamsburg-James City County Circuit Court, in May of 2017,
Hicks was found not criminally responsible for Maness’ murder by reason of insanity.
It was reported that the gunman had been evaluated twice by a forensic psychologist at Central State
Hospital, who concluded that he’d been in a psychotic state “just prior to, during,
and shortly after” the shooting. Following the announcement of the verdict, Maness’ widow filed
a wrongful death lawsuit against Hicks, in which she sought a reported $5.35 million in damages
for what was stated as sorrow, mental anguish, and loss of solace. The two sides reportedly reached a
$300,000 settlement in April of 2018. #1 - The Buffalo Shooting
At around 2:30 pm, on May the 14th of 2022, law enforcement in Buffalo, New York, received
reports of shots fired at a Tops supermarket in the city’s East Side neighborhood. Upon making
their way to the scene, officers reported seeing multiple bodies lying in the parking lot outside
and, shortly thereafter, they were informed by dispatchers of an active shooter situation inside
the store. A few minutes later, patrol officers at the front of the building encountered the gunman,
who was reportedly wearing body armor and a military grade helmet while carrying a modified
Bushmaster XM-15 rifle. The shooter initially aimed the weapon at his own neck, threatening to
take his own life, but he was ultimately talked into dropping the gun and surrendering to the
police. In the incident’s aftermath, it emerged that the perpetrator was 18-year-old Payton
S. Gendron, who’d described himself as an ethno-nationalist in a manifesto he’d written
prior to the shooting. He was a supporter of the “white genocide” conspiracy theory
and investigators determined that the attack had been racially and politically motivated.
The gunman killed 10 people, 3 in the parking lot and 6 inside the store, and injured another 3. One
of the victims was an armed security guard and former member of the Buffalo Police Department
named Aaron Salter Jr., who’d reportedly fired at Gendron, but failed to penetrate his body armor.
In the wake of his arrest, the mass shooter faced a myriad of criminal charges, including
10 counts of first-degree murder as a hate crime. During his arraignment in Erie County Court on
June the 2nd of 2022, Gendron pleaded not guilty to each of the 25 counts levied against him.
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