Heavily Armed Man With Body Armor Arrested At Missouri Walmart

SPRINGFIELD, MO — Police in Missouri arrested a man armed with a loaded rifle and 100 rounds of ammunition outside a Springfield Walmart store. Springfield police said they responded to the Walmart Neighborhood Market store on Republic Road just after 4 p.m. Thursday after the man — initially identified only as an “armed white male in his twenties” — was detained outside the store by an off-duty firefighter.

Police, who said “an armed individual was confronted at (Walmart) and arrested” on a charge of making a terrorist threat, later identified the man as 20-year-old Dmitriy N. Andreychenko. The case is under review by the Greene County prosecutor, according to police, who said they would release more information after formal charges are filed.

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Police told Springfield’s KY3 that the man, wearing military fatigues and body armor, pulled up to the Walmart store and went inside, where he grabbed a cart and began pushing it around the store while filming himself on a cellphone. According to the Springfield News-Leader, authorities said he was carrying a loaded rifle.

The store manager reportedly pulled a fire alarm, urging customers to flee the store, and the armed man left through an emergency exit but was stopped outside by an armed off-duty firefighter, who held him until police arrived.

“His intent was not to cause peace or comfort,” Lt. Mike Lucas told KY3. “He’s lucky he’s alive still, to be honest.”

Walmart reportedly condemned the incident and banned him from their stores, saying it was a “reckless act designed to scare people.”

A video reportedly taken outside the Walmart and posted to Facebook shows the man, wearing a tactical vest and carrying a long gun, being arrested by a Springfield officer. An officer can be heard saying, “He’s got a handgun in his waistband,” as the man kneels down with his hands in the air, still clutching what appears to be a cellphone.

The incident happened five days after a man opened fire at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 22 people in what is being investigated as an act of domestic terrorism. The same day, just hours later, a gunman opened fire in a crowded bar district in Dayton, Ohio, killing nine more people.

Police are asking anyone who was at the Walmart during the incident but has not yet spoken to police to contact the Springfield Police Department to file a report and provide further information at 417-864-1810.