LAS VEGAS — At least two people were fatally shot inside a grocery store in the south Las Vegas Valley on Tuesday morning.

The Metropolitan Police Department said the shooting was reported in the 9700 block of South Maryland Parkway, and a suspect was taken into custody.

Smith’s is located at 9750 S. Maryland Parkway.

Hanna Manker of Las Vegas was in the Smith’s with her two children, ages 1 and 3.

“My kids and I went to get some groceries,” Manker said. “Their dad ended up showing up to help us, thank God.”

Manker said she had gathered her groceries and was checking out when multiple gunshots rang out. The children’s father, Darius Alston, was also present.

“Checking out and we heard about five or six shots,” Manker said. “Everybody started running. I didn’t know what to do so I ducked down with my kids, and he made us run out.”

Manker said they briefly went back in the store to try to get their groceries, her keys and phone.

“Apparently we were closer than we expected to be” to the shooting, she said. “There was someone right on the other side of where we were checking out.”

She said she and her family go to the store often.

Asked her reaction, she said “traumatized.”

“I don’t know if I will ever be able to go into a store shopping again honestly,” she said.

Manker described Alston as a hero, saying he helped apprehend the shooter. She said Alston relayed to police the details of the apprehension.

“Their dad actually is the hometown hero today,” she said. “He got the shooter.”

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