The Would-Be Atlanta Publix Shooting

Dakin Andone, reporting for CNN:

An Instacart shopper who entered an Atlanta supermarket bathroom this week told police he saw an AR-15 style rifle and heard what he believed was the sound of someone loading guns in a bathroom stall. 

The witness rushed out of the bathroom and notified staff at the Publix Supermarket. When police arrived soon after, they arrested a suspect as he was exiting the bathroom -- with six loaded guns in his possession.

The suspect, identified as 22-year-old Rico Marley, now faces a slew of charges related to the incident, which came just days after 10 people were killed in a mass shooting at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado.

It was that tragedy that was fresh in the mind of the Instacart shopper, Charles Russell, he told CNN affiliate WSB.

"I saw an AR-15," he said. "And I was like, you know, this kind of startled me just again with events that recently happened in the grocery store up in Colorado."

Authorities have not said what they believed Marley intended to do with the weapons.

Yeah “authorities,” I fucking wonder.

This might as well count as a mass shooting. Real nice country we got here.

It’s also worth pointing out that rather than do anything about this near miss massacre, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp spent that day passing a modern day Jim Crow voter suppression bill that makes it illegal to give water to someone waiting in line to vote.