Home Depot employee fatally shot in store parking lot after leaving work
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Authorities say a Home Depot employee has been fatally shot after he left work.
Local media outlets report that police Capt. Gregg Rector says 25-year-old Xavier Montez Beasley was found lying in the parking lot at Home Depot in Hoover, about 12 miles south of Birmingham. Police say they received a call around 12:31 a.m. Saturday about shots fired at the store.
Rector says Beasley was shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Rector says the store had been closed several hours, but some employees often work past closing time.
Investigators still don't know a motive behind the shooting. Rector says there were no words exchanged before the shooting and no robbery attempt.
The shooter fled the scene on foot and has not been caught.