A 22-year-old Black truck driver from Fort Worth, Texas, passing through Strongsville, Ohio, fatally shot a Costco employee, claiming he did so in self-defense after the employee pulled a knife on him as he approached the store entrance.
Witnesses told police that Christian M. Bryant was carrying a semi-automatic handgun with a visible drum ammunition magazine “protruding from one of his pockets.”
After Costco employee Randolph Corrigan, 61, told him he could not enter the store with the gun, and then pulled out a pocket knife, police said Bryant shot him once, paused for a “split-second,” then stood over Corrigan as he lay on the ground and unloaded a hail of bullets into him.
Publicly released police accounts of the incident, which occurred at 5:43 p.m. on Saturday, April 25, shed little more light on what transpired between the two men…