At least 11 people were stabbed in a Michigan supermarketin the north of the United States, according to the local authorities. A 42 -year -old man was arrestedthe chief of the County Police of Grand Traversa, Michael Shea, said at the press conference, explaining that “these are acts carried out at random” and that “the victims had not been targeted in advance”. The attacker, residing in Michigan, would have acted alone, armed with a folding knife. Eleven people were hospitalized, confirmed the Munson Medical Center hospital on X: Six are in critical conditions and five in serious conditions but not in danger of life. At least three patients were operated on. There are six men and five women.
Michigan’s governor, Gretchen Whitmer, said he was in contact with the authorities to follow this “terrible news”. The police explained that the alarm took place in the late afternoon. A witness, Julia Martell, told the New York Times that he had heard of the screams and that he saw a man running with a knife in his hand in the pharmacy department of a Walmart supermarket, pushing and stabbing customers while crossing the shop. “I saw three wounds and blood everywhere,” said the thirty year old. Shea specified that the aggression began at the helm and stressed that similar episodes are “very unusual” for the area. Some customers contributed to the arrest of the suspect. Traversa City is a popular tourist resort on the banks of Lake Michigan.