CROZET, ALBEMARLE COUNTY VA
02/17/2025
A man who some social media sources had described as 'just having been involved as the aggressor in a heated road rage verbal exchange' prior to this incident pulled into a Harris Teeter supermarket in Crozet, Virginia, retrieved a rifle from his vehicle, and began shooting indiscriminately at shoppers entering and leaving the crowded store at around 1:00 PM. An SUV with a retired nurse sitting inside was pumped with multiple bullets first, leaving the woman occupant in critical condition. The shooter, now identified as 28 year old Justin Barbour, then turned his rifle onto shoppers at the supermarket's entranceway. His next fusillade struck and killed a 43 year old customer leaving the store. Another shopper, an off duty federal agent, heard the sound of gunfire, drew his personal CCW, identified the active shooter and returned fire, hitting him multiple times. Barbour, the shooter, was pronounced dead on scene by arriving first responders.
The deceased would-be mass shooter, 28 year old Justin Barbour:
A primary source eyewitness account of the gunfight in the parking lot:
Moral of this story: Carry and be ready everywhere and anywhere. Also train comprehensively to make sure that not only you CAN hit what you are aiming at under stress, but you can also do so with minimum rounds fired. The armed shopper's rounds came very close to striking a couple of bystanders as he was exchanging fire with the gunman.
There is absolutely no doubt that an armed patron of the store had stopped what would have been a mass casualty and possibly hostage/standoff situation based on how eyewitnesses described the shooter's movements towards the crowded store and the fashion in which he was firing that rifle.
02/17/2025
A man who some social media sources had described as 'just having been involved as the aggressor in a heated road rage verbal exchange' prior to this incident pulled into a Harris Teeter supermarket in Crozet, Virginia, retrieved a rifle from his vehicle, and began shooting indiscriminately at shoppers entering and leaving the crowded store at around 1:00 PM. An SUV with a retired nurse sitting inside was pumped with multiple bullets first, leaving the woman occupant in critical condition. The shooter, now identified as 28 year old Justin Barbour, then turned his rifle onto shoppers at the supermarket's entranceway. His next fusillade struck and killed a 43 year old customer leaving the store. Another shopper, an off duty federal agent, heard the sound of gunfire, drew his personal CCW, identified the active shooter and returned fire, hitting him multiple times. Barbour, the shooter, was pronounced dead on scene by arriving first responders.
The deceased would-be mass shooter, 28 year old Justin Barbour:
A primary source eyewitness account of the gunfight in the parking lot:
Moral of this story: Carry and be ready everywhere and anywhere. Also train comprehensively to make sure that not only you CAN hit what you are aiming at under stress, but you can also do so with minimum rounds fired. The armed shopper's rounds came very close to striking a couple of bystanders as he was exchanging fire with the gunman.
There is absolutely no doubt that an armed patron of the store had stopped what would have been a mass casualty and possibly hostage/standoff situation based on how eyewitnesses described the shooter's movements towards the crowded store and the fashion in which he was firing that rifle.
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