A teenager was killed during a shooting at the Mall of America on Friday that sent frightened customers at the country's largest shopping centre racing into a lockdown just before the holiday weekend, police said.
The Associated PressSecurity officers speak inside a store at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., after reports of shots fired on Friday.Bloomington police Chief Booker Hodges said the victim was a 19-year-old man. A bystander's jacket was also grazed by a bullet during the shooting at the mall's Nordstrom location.
Hodges said the mall is continuously evaluating its security measures, including the possibility of adding metal detectors. "The family here — I really feel bad for them," Hodges said. "Their last week before Christmas and now they're having to bury one of their loved ones." The reported shooting comes as shopping centres and malls across the U.S. see an influx of customers just days before Christmas.Jenny Hefty of Sioux Falls, S.D., and her 16-year-old daughter had just gotten off the escalator up to the mall's second floor, in front of the Nordstrom store, when people started running toward them and screaming. Her daughter thought she heard gunshots, although Hefty did not.
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