The gunman, 20-year-old Ethan Blair Miller, was captured on
Ring Doorbell surveillance leaving his Fox Hollow apartment building at 7:03 pm, armed with an
AR-15 style rifle and a
12-gauge shotgun. Miller wore a green satchel containing ammunition, a tactical vest and a black shirt with the word HURT in dark red lettering across his chest in reference to the song "
Hurt" by
Nine Inch Nails. He then fired three shots into his own vehicle, a
1997 Ford F-250, in the parking lot of the apartment building. Miller is then caught on surveillance walking through the parking lot between an
Old Navy and a
Costco. He opened fire, hitting stacks of hot tubs, a parked van, and wounding the driver of a moving black
Honda Civic with glass and shrapnel as he shot through the passenger-side window. At 7:05 pm, Miller reached the Forum shopping center parking lot, where he fired into a
Big Lots store adjacent to Safeway. Upon reaching the west entrance of the Safeway, he shot Glenn Edward Bennett, an 84-year-old customer and
Korean War veteran, five times, striking near his groin, right arm and left thigh. Two other shoppers of the grocery store fled when the shooting started, but later returned to help Bennett, who had been lying on the ground. Bennett later died from his injuries in the hospital. Miller then moved farther into the store, firing into aisles as he progressed. He is then seen walking over to the meat section where he confronts a hiding person laying on the ground, firing a shot beside him and continuing, leaving the patron unharmed. Miller then continues toward the produce section where he is stabbed by Donald Ray Surrett Jr., a 66-year-old employee who had hidden behind a produce cart in the store after he heard gunshots. As Miller walked past the produce cart, Surrett lunged at him with a produce knife and attempted to disarm him, forcing him to drop his shotgun. However, Miller overpowered Surrett and shot him once with his rifle. He then drops the rifle, picks up the shotgun and shoots Surrett twice, ultimately killing him. Three
molotov cocktails and a
sawed-off Remington 870 shotgun were also found in the shooter's truck. ==Perpetrator==