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10. Security Guard, Shoplifting Suspect Dead in Shooting at Oxon Hill Grocery Store: Police

MARYLAND

Security Guard, Shoplifting Suspect Dead in Shooting at Oxon Hill Grocery Store: Police

There’s no threat to the community, police said

Published November 4, 2022 • Updated on November 5, 2022 at 4:44 pm

A man and a woman were killed in a shooting Friday morning at a Giant grocery store in Oxon Hill, Maryland, when an attempted act of shoplifting turned deadly, police said.

Police said a male security guard confronted a female shoplifter, who pulled a gun from her backpack and opened fire on the security guard. He then returned fire, police said.

Prince George’s County police responded about 10:25 a.m. to the shooting at the Giant in the 20 block of Audrey Lane, at the Eastover Shopping Center.

The security guard, 43-year-old Willie Tate of Fredericksburg, was pronounced dead at the scene. The suspected shoplifter, 20-year-old Zaila Akida of District Heights, died at a hospital, police said.

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