Shooting at an Arizona Walmart injures an innocent shopper

An innocent shopper was shot on Sunday night at an Arizona Walmart when a fight between two women in the store escalated into a shootout.

Police arrived on the scene at the Walmart located near 35th Avenue and Bethany Home Road in Phoenix. While paramedics were treating the victim, officers searched for the two women involved, who had fled the scene.

The shooter fired multiple shots, according to information gathered from official sources, ABC15 news channel reported.

Phoenix Police Department Sergeant Philip Krynsky told Fox 10 that "the victim was taken from the store. Officers conducted a search of the business and no other victims or suspects were located."

He added that surveillance camera footage shows the moment when the fight broke out between two women shortly before the shooting. One of the women involved pulled out a gun and shot her rival.

"The suspect appeared to have missed her intended target and struck the victim, who was unrelated to the altercation," Krynsky continued.

The victim suffered "non-life-threatening injuries," according to ABC15. It is unclear whether she required hospital treatment.

Phoenix Police are investigating the incident.

The shooting at the store comes just two months after Prince Need, a McDonald's fast-food employee, was shot to death in the store's bathroom in west Phoenix.

According to Gun Violence Archive, a database that compiles information on shootings in the United States, 34 people in Arizona have lost their lives to gunshot wounds since January 1 of this year, 15 of them in Phoenix alone.