A pickup truck driver fleeing police careened through the doors of a JCPenney store in Texas and continued through a busy mall, injuring five people.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.This image taken from video provided by KCEN-TV shows police responding after a man drove a vehicle into a JCPenney at a shopping mall Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024, in Killeen, Texas .The truck crashed into the department store in Killeen, about 68 miles north of the state capital Austin, around 5:30 p.m.
Emergency medical services transported four victims from the mall to area hospitals and another traveled to a hospital separately. They ranged in age from 6 to 75 years old and their conditions were not immediately known, he said. The chase began around 5 p.m. on Interstate 14 in Belton, about 20 miles from Killeen, after authorities received calls about an erratic driver in a black pickup, Ofelia Miramontez of the Killeen Police Department said.This image provided by KXXV shows police responding to a JCPenney at a shopping mall on Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024, in Killeen, Texas.“The suspect drove through the doors and continued to drive through the JCPenney store, striking multiple people,” Washko said.
Officers from the state public safety department, Killeen and three other law enforcement agencies “engaged in gunfire to eliminate this threat,” Washko said. One of the officers who traded gunfire with the suspect was working as a security guard at the mall and others were off duty, he said.Witnesses interviewed by local news outlets outside the mall said they heard multiple gunshots and saw people fleeing through the mall.Thousands stream into Belgrade square to protest against populist Serbian president
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