When West couldn't get in touch with her daughter on the phone, she got up after two or three minutes and began to walk toward them at the front with her other daughter, son, and cousin who she realized was nearby. West's other daughter had just walked away from the air hockey table with her one-year-old niece before the shooting began. Other people around her continued taking cover, including the woman at the neighboring air hockey table, who was shouting for her toddler, who had crawled toward West's lap. Because the building was so loud, she said she didn't hear the shots. In the games area, West was on the ground, shielding a toddler in her lap. They were in a city that wasn't their own hometown of Florence, in northwest Alabama, and had also fragmented into several small groups inside the arcade. West's family members began calling one another, piecing the narrative back together later in the parking lot by reviewing timestamps in their phones. Once they watched back the video, Bunch saw her daughter and two grandchildren holding hands, running out. She and two of her grandchildren were separated from her daughter and two other grandchildren, who had gone to the bathroom. Soon after, the gunshots began at the kitchen.Īnother witness, Regina Bunch, helped a woman who had fallen in the chaos and directed someone to care for an infant who had been left in a stroller. Greer had been escorted out of the building by security due to the argument, according to the affidavit, but later returned to the building with a gun. Her daughter across from her, her son behind her, and someone else's toddler next to her. She never heard shots, but at 4:07 p.m., she hit the ground. "And then all of a sudden, I just saw people running towards us" from the front of the building, West said. Saturday afternoon, West had started on her new games card and was in the back of the building playing air hockey with one of her daughters when her teenage son came back to tell her something: People at the front were about to fight. Incredible Pizza," the person says in the video, which has since been shared at least 14,000 times. (Efforts to reach the poster of the video were not successful.) Then three shots, fired quickly in a row.Ībout 10 seconds after the last shot, the person recording the video catches their breath, stopped in a new area of the building. The camera flips to the ground, the black and white checkered flooring a blur as the person videoing begins to run. In the second before the first shot rings out, a group of about six people appear to walk through a swinging aluminum kitchen door. West estimated she was one of 300 people inside. A pink mylar ballon "2" floats over a table to the left. The footage begins near a salad bar inside the arcade and pizza restaurant in Cordova, which is within a shopping center of a few other businesses along North Germantown Parkway. It is unclear from the affidavit if any other people fired weapons, but a 94-second video from the afternoon captures what sounds like six gun shots. Greer tossed the gun under a car in the parking lot, per the affidavit. Police reviewed surveillance footage of the scene to match Greer to a person in the same clothing firing shots in the kitchen. Greer was booked into the Shelby County Jail Saturday, records show. Both were sent to the hospital, but by Sunday afternoon, one person had been released and one was in non-critical condition, per a spokesperson for the department.Īn affidavit later revealed that someone involved in the argument and a shooter's mother were the people injured.īy Sunday afternoon, police arrested Antravion Greer, 21, who faces four felony charges for aggravated assault, criminal attempt first degree murder, employing a firearm with intent to commit a felony, and tampering with or fabricating evidence. Memphis police reported two adults with gunshot wounds from the shooting, which the department said stemmed from an argument between two families who know one another. Once the initial shock wore off, she realized someone in her family could have gotten killed. “It’s really pathetic and pitiful to me,” Shauna West, 42, said of the shooting inside America's Incredible Pizza Company in Memphis. How could they have expected a shooting? They were there for pizza and games. It was supposed to be a fun Saturday out of town.īy the time the family accounted for its 18 members in the parking lot outside the building where the shooting occurred, they were in shock and ready to go back home.
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