Second Ohio mass shooting victim dies; 4 still hospitalized: What we know
Four victims remain hospitalized, but their condition is unknown, according to police.
A second victim from the Ohio warehouse mass shooting died, which has now left two dead and four injured, according to police.
On Thursday, the New Albany Police Department announced a second victim from the Ohio mass shooting that happened on Tuesday, succumbed to their injuries.
Shakhar Chapagai, 30, died at Mount Carmel East Hospital at 8:33 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Columbus Dispatch, a part of the Paste BN Network. He was one of five employees transported to area hospitals after a gunman opened fire at the KDC/ONE, a cosmetics and beauty products warehouse, in New Albany, Ohio, which is around 18 miles northeast of Columbus, Ohio, at 10:30 p.m. local time.
Four more people who were injured during the shooting are still in the hospital, but their conditions remain unknown, according to police.
Suspect in deadly mass shooting captured, faces charges
On Tuesday, an employee, Bruce Reginald Foster III, 28, is suspected of opening fire at KDC/ONE, a cosmetics and beauty products warehouse. The shooting initially left one person dead and five injured.
Foster was arrested the morning after the shooting in an apartment complex.
He was charged with aggravated murder and felonious assault, according to the Licking County Jail records. He is awaiting a bond hearing.
What happened?
On Tuesday, Foster is suspected of opening fire on warehouse employees after working for several hours, according to Paste BN's previous reporting. He allegedly fled the scene after shots were fired.
Around 150 employees were in the warehouse when the shooting began, according to the New Albany Police Chief Greg Jones. All of the victims were employees at the warehouse.
One person was pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting, and five others were taken to the hospital.
“This is a tragedy that, to be honest with you, I never thought we’d see in our community,” he said.
When New Albany police officers and multiple other agencies responded to the scene, they entered the "very loud" warehouse, which had "a lot of nooks and crannies" and machinery, according to Jones.
It took K9s, a drone and "hours to clear the building," he said.
However, Foster had left for his apartment in a ride share he took regularly, according to the Columbus Dispatch.
At the warehouse, police found a handgun, a Glock Model 26 compact 9mm pistol, that was legally purchased by Foster in September 2024, according to the newspaper. The gun can hold up to nine rounds of bullets but can accept a magazine that holds up to 31 rounds.
It is unknown how many bullets the gun had at the time of the shooting, according to Daryl McCormick, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
On Wednesday, the morning after the shooting, he was arrested at his apartment and charged with multiple felonies.
The second victim died at the hospital the night Foster was arrested.
Police have not identified what motivated the shooting, said Jones. There were no reports of confrontations or disputes before the shooting occurred.
The first homicide in New Albany
While the city has seen felonious assaults, a shooting and a stabbing, none of the victims involved in those instances were killed, according to Jones.
However, the deceased victims of the shooting are the first and second people to be murdered in New Albany, according to the Columbus Dispatch.
"This is obviously rare for us," said Jones. "...You certainly hope this never happens, but it's something all police departments across the US need to prepare for."
Gun violence in America
Since the start of 2025, there have been 26 mass shootings and one mass murder, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Between 2020 and 2024, there were a total of 3,106 mass shootings.
This story has been updated to add new information.
Contributing: Christopher Cann, Cheryl Vari; Paste BN NETWORK; Jim Wilhelm, Shahid Meighan Columbus Dispatch
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