Walmart Employee Charged With Stabbing Two Customers At Texas Store

Princeton, TX -- A Walmart worker was charged with going on a stabbing rampage at a store in northeast Texas on Thursday afternoon, injuring two people before being subdued.

The incident occurred at about 4 p.m. at the Walmart store on U.S. Highway 380. Three people, including an off-duty McKinney firefighter, were stabbed, according to media outlets.

Princeton City Manager Derek Borg told NBC 5 that a Walmart employee cut the firefighter's throat and injured another person. Both were hospitalized, but are expected to recover from their injuries.

The television station identified the suspect as 20-year-old Nicolas Francisco Martinez, who was also hospitalized for treatment of a hand wound.

By late Thursday afternoon, the Princeton Police Departmentissued an update in the form of a statement.

"After further investigation, the Princeton Police Department is confident that the victims were not targeted for any reason other than being at the wrong place at the wrong time," police said. "Without releasing further important information regarding the case; investigators are confident race, religion, or occupation were not factors that led the alleged suspect to cause harm to the victims."

Police did not say what may have prompted the attack: "We will try to keep the community informed as much as possible," police wrote.

Martinez has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and public intoxication, the news station reported. The Walmart store in which the violence occurred barely opened on May 11, according to a report in The Princeton Herald.

Princeton is a community of some 7,000 residents in Collin County. The city is located about 33 miles north of Dallas.