A social media post from Saturday, Jan. 21, contended an armed man had been seen entering the Walmart Supercenter in Cape Girardeau.
A post from Cape Girardeau Police Department painted a starkly different scenario: An orange toy gun had been observed in a vehicle in the store's parking lot.
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