Exterior of a Lakeland, California Wal-Mart, where a transient man was arrested for beating a 74-year-old man to death with a baseball bat.
A California madman, stalking the aisles of a Wal-Mart, wielded a bat snatched from the sporting goods department to pummel another shopper into bloody oblivion Tuesday.
The vicious attack that left the 74-year-old victim dead the mega-store was unprovoked, said cops.
"What we know is that this attack was completely random," Los Angeles County Sheriff's Lt. Ed Hernandez told The Los Angeles Times.
"They were on opposite sides of the store and didn’t see each other. From what we know, they did not have contact outside. It was just a violent, unprovoked attacked."
The name of the attacker—and his septuagenarian victim—was not released by authorities as of Wednesday.
The attacker reportedly used an aluminum baseball bat from the Lakewood box-store’s sporting goods department in the beat-down.
"I was standing in the line getting a money order and I heard someone yell, 'Call 911!'," shopper John Rouse, told KTLA-TV in Los Angeles.
"He just kind of walked out the door and gave up," Rouse said of the 47-year-old fiend’s exit from the store. "There was no physical confrontation. He just sat down and gave up."
Witnesses told KTLA-TV that the attacker appeared to be homeless, but police officials said they were still cobbling together a portrait of the killer.
What’s not in question is the severity and brutality of the attack.
"It does not appear there was any communication or warning whatsoever," Hernandez told The Times. "It’s one of the most brutal attacks I have ever seen."
The attack, caught on surveillance video, closed down the store.
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