Colorado Walmart shooting suspect caught Colorado Walmart shoot

THORNTON, Colo. (Reuters) - Police in Colorado coarsely Thursday captured a man who they had said calmly walked into a suburban Denver Walmart and fatally shot three people at random by now driving away.

Scott Ostrem, 47, was taken into custody without incident a hours of daylight after the shooting, taking into account a tip from the public, the Thornton Police Department said.

Police spokesman Victor Avila told reporters Ostrem had "a minimal criminal records" and that authorities had not still conventional a motive for the rampage.

Video vent around from CBS affiliate KCNC-TV showed the suspect creature handcuffed by police closely the side of an SUV as FBI agents carrying rifles and wearing body armor looked concerning speaking.

KCNC-TV said police SWAT team officers had ringed the suspect's last known dwelling in suburban Adams County upon Thursday daylight subsequent to Ostrem drove p.s. and was spotted. He was followed by feat enforcement and journalists, KCNC-TV reported, and was arrested in the puff not guilty suburb of Westminster subsequent to a "unexpected motion."

Police had earlier released a surveillance camera photograph of a middle-aged white man wearing a black jacket and blue jeans. They with published a photo of the red four-right to use Mitsubishi hatchback he was believed to have fled in.

Ostrem "nonchalantly" entered the put in in Thornton, approximately 10 miles (16 km) northeast of downtown Denver, and opened fire upon shoppers and employees unexpectedly after 6 p.m. (8 p.m. EDT) upon Wednesday, Avila had earlier told reporters, citing witness accounts.

Two men were killed in the shooting and a girl who was shot was taken to a hospital where she died, according to police. No one else was pained, police said.

"What we have favorable is that it is random as of right now," Avila told reporters. "As witnesses confirmed, the person came in and just shot towards a intervention."

The Walmart had been speedily together together in the middle of police and blaze crews. Authorities initially said "merger parties" had been insulted. Avila said there was no indication the shooting was an achievement of terrorism and no one had claimed answerability.

"We can't deem anything out," he said.

Walmart customer Aaron Stephens, 44, of Thornton told Reuters he was buying groceries at a self-checkout stand subsequently than he heard gunshots and ricocheting shells.

"The employees started screaming and the customers started screaming" as people began to control away, he said. "I ran out, too, because I didn't throbbing to profit shot."

NBC television affiliate 9NEWS reported a woman whose son was in the Walmart said he heard nearly 30 gunshots.

Early accounts of fused casualties had revived sore memories for the Denver place, where a gunman killed 12 people in 2012 at a midnight screening of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" at a theater in the suburb of Aurora. The shooter, James Holmes, is serving a dozen consecutive simulation sentences without the possibility of parole.

In 1999 two 12th-graders fatally shot 12 fellow students and a scholastic at Columbine High School in suburban Jefferson County. The pair, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, later alive suicide in the campus library.

(Additional reporting by Gina Cherelus in New York and Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee; Editing by Daniel Wallis and Bill Trott)

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