Officers responded to the shop about 10.12pm Tuesday (2.12pm Wednesday AEDT) and located proof of a taking pictures inside, Chesapeake Police public data officer Leo Kosinski instructed CNN.
The officers entered the shop and found a number of folks lifeless and injured, Kosinski mentioned.
The shop in Chesapeake is now secure, he mentioned early on Wednesday.
Earlier, Kosinski mentioned he could not say how the gunman died however that he did not consider police fired pictures.
The taking pictures had apparently stopped when police arrived on the retailer in Chesapeake, which is Virginia's second-largest metropolis and lies subsequent to the seaside communities of Norfolk and Virginia Seashore.
Mike Kafka, a spokesman for Sentara Healthcare, mentioned in a textual content message that 5 sufferers from the Walmart have been being handled at Norfolk Normal Hospital. Their situations weren't instantly accessible.
Walmart tweeted early Wednesday that it was "shocked at this tragic occasion".
US Senator Mark Warner mentioned in a tweet that he was "sickened by stories of yet one more mass taking pictures, this time at a Walmart in Chesapeake".
State Senator Louise Lucas echoed Warner's sentiment, tweeting that she was "completely heartbroken that America's newest mass taking pictures passed off in a Walmart in my district".
The taking pictures got here three days after an individual opened hearth at a homosexual nightclub in Colorado late Saturday, killing 5 folks and wounding 17. Earlier within the yr, the nation was shaken by the deaths of 21 when a gunman stormed an elementary college in Uvalde, Texas.
Tuesday's taking pictures additionally introduced again recollections of one other at a Walmart in 2019, when a gunman police say was focusing on Mexicans opened hearth at a retailer in El Paso and killed 22 folks.