An Instacart shopper in North Carolina who was in the middle of a grocery haul for a woman allegedly shot and killed a police officer — gunning him down before the cop had “time to draw” — while inside of a local supermarket, officials say.
“He started doing the shopping,” Tarell McMillian’s customer, Sheila Gonzalez, told CBS affiliate WFMY this week after the Monday shooting in Greensboro. “He was nearly finished.”
McMillian, 34, was compiling Gonzalez’s grocery order when he allegedly opened fire on Greensboro Police Officer Michael Horan inside a Food Lion at 4709 Lawndale Drive. A 911 call came in Monday morning of a “suspicious person, possibly armed” being inside of the supermarket, with McMillian fitting the description.
“Officer Horan was the first to arrive on the scene and made contact with the individual inside the store,” the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation said in a press release Monday night. “After a brief struggle, the suspect pulled out a gun and shot the officer before leaving the scene in a vehicle. The officer did not have time to draw or fire his weapon.”