New York Giants Players Escape Minnesota Mall Of America Shooting
Some unidentified players were inside the Mall of America in Bloomington, ,
The Mall of America was locked down following the shooting but it was lifted at around 10:00pm ET on Friday evening.
The Giants were staying at a hotel adjacent to the mall ahead of their NFL game with the Saturday afternoon.
Security officers speak following a shooting at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota
First responders and an ambulance are seen at Nordstrom after reports of a shooting on Friday
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Pat Hanlon, the team's executive vice president of communications, said he believes some players were in the mall at the time of the shooting.
'Everyone is back in the hotel and 남자 쇼핑몰 accounted for now,' Hanlon said Friday
br>/p>Giants' radio play-by-play announcer Bob Papa was also at the shopping mall when there were reports of shots being
br>/p> Some unnamed New York Giants players escaped shopping mall after reports shots were
br>/p> Gospel star Jovonta Patton and Christmas shoppers were seen diving for cover when a shooter opened fire at the Mall of America in Bloomington Minnesota, leaving one man, 19
br>/p> 'Scary here @mallofameri
br>Shooting in mall. On lockdown at #TwinCitiesGrill. Two gunmen at least one victim,' he tweeted at around 10:30pm ET Friday ni
br>/p>Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said the victim was a 19-year-old man and a bystander's jacket was also grazed by a bullet during the shooting at the mall's Nordstrom loc
br>/p>There appeared to be some type of altercation between two groups and at one point, someone pulled out a gun and shot the victim multiple times, the chief sa
br>The entire incident lasted about 30 se
br>/p>Hodges urged the gunman and the others involved in the fight to turn themselves into p
br>/p>'We are going to catch you, we are going to lock you up and you are going to get an orange jumpsuit,' he sa
br>'It's just a matter of when it's going to ha
br>/p> Giants' radio play-by-play announcer Bob Papa was also at the shopping mall Friday
br>/p>He also warned people against aiding the suspects in avoiding a
br>/p>'If anybody helps these people - I mean so much as buy them a Happy Meal, give them a ride,' he sa
br>'We're going to lock you up with
br>/p>The mall was expected to reopen Saturday but the Nordstrom store will remain closed, Hodges
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br>Since it opened in 1992, 남자 쇼핑몰 the mall has been a tourist destination and community gathe
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It bans guns on the premises but shoppers have generally not been required to pass through metal dete
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The mall said in October it was testing a 'weapons detection system' at one of it
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s.Hodges said the mall is continuously evaluating its security measures, including the possibility of adding metal detectors. Still, the chief added, 'if we have an incident where someone decides they want to pull out a gun and shoot somebody with a complete lack of respect for human life, then I still don't know what we can do to
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.' Despite enhanced security measures installed in October and 16 officers on site at the time of the shooting, Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said no arrests had b
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etPolice did not identify the man who was killed but Hodges said he and Bloomington Mayor Tim Busse spoke to the victim's relatives on F
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t.'The family here - I really feel bad for them,' Hodges
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'Their last week before Christmas and now they´re having to bury one of their
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.'Mall video surveillance showed the altercation between the two groups - estimated as five to nine people - erupt into a fistfight before one person pulled out a gun and opened fire, the
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d. Shoppers leave after a lockdown was lifted after reports of shots being fired Fr
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ngA nearby Bloomington police officer - one of 16 stationed at the mall Friday - heard the gunshots around 7
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The officer tried life-saving measures but the
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d.The lockdown lasted for about an hour before the mall tweeted that shoppers were being sent outside. Videos posted on social media show shoppers hiding in stores, 남자 쇼핑몰 and an announcement in the mall warned people to seek
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eard.A video uploaded to Instagram by Jovonta Patton, a five-time number one chart-topping Billboard recording artist, composer, producer, and entrepreneur, showed the events from his p
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fold.In the video the recording artist can be seen shopping at a Gucci store with a caption stating that he had bee
king
eel.So, bae, did you find the purse that you want,' he can be heard saying to a woman sm
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him. Officials lock down the west wing of the Mall of America after a shooting w
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riday Signs around the Mall of America indicate that a lockdown is in progres
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otingShortly after asking the question, a loud gunshot can be heard and the woman looks directly at the camera in shock, before she and Patton quickly dive to the ground and take she
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tore.The person filming can also be seen hitting the ground amid the chaos with the footage showing the person taking the video scrambling to move fr
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ront.When the video continues, a person can be heard saying 'I hope that something just fell' as the person filming hides in what appears to be a store cupboard with other C
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pers.The reported shooting comes as shopping centers and malls across the US see an influx of customers just days
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tmas.The mall was placed on lockdown in August after a reported shooting at the suburban Minneapolis shopping complex sent some shoppers running for 남자 쇼핑몰 cover and two people were wounded last New Year's Eve during
pparent
rcation.Representatives from the city of Bloomington and Nordstrom did not immediately retu
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comment.
