{"id":13844,"date":"2022-12-24T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.injuryinsiders.com\/?p=13844"},"modified":"2022-12-24T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T19:12:00","slug":"mall-of-america-shooting-leaves-teen-dead-friday-night-law-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.injuryinsiders.com\/?p=13844","title":{"rendered":"Mall of America shooting leaves teen dead Friday night \u2013 Law Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawofficer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-24-at-12.57.27-PM-e1671908703849.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing\" data-heateor-sss-href=\"https:\/\/www.lawofficer.com\/mall-of-america-shooting-leaves-teen-dead\/\">\n<p>Share and speak up for justice, law &amp; order&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>BLOOMINGTON, Minn. \u2013 <\/strong>A shooting at Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., on the kick-off to Christmas weekend left a 19-year-old man dead and police searching for suspects Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomington police said in a briefing late Friday night that two groups had gotten into a physical altercation and one person pulled out a gun and fired shots killing the teen.<\/p>\n<p>The incident began about 7:50 p.m. when an officer called out over the air that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CrimeWatchMpls\/status\/1606469380048490496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shots had been fired<\/a>\u00a0inside the Nordstrom store at the mall, according to police dispatch audio.<\/p>\n<p>Further dispatch audio indicated that police quickly located the victim and that CPR was being performed. Shortly thereafter, an officer aired that the victim was deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Audio indicated that police may have been searching for a second shooting victim at the time, but Chief Booker Hodges said in a late-night press conference that the clothing of an innocent bystander had been grazed. There was no indication that any other victims had been injured by gunfire.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Police give update on reported shooting at Mall of America\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I9gBEBoi1qQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Mall of America posted on social media shortly after the shooting that a lockdown had gone into place and asked people to remain in the closest secure location until the lockdown was lifted. The lockdown lasted about an hour, and then people were asked to leave the building as the mall closed for the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Hodges confirmed in his briefing that the shots had been reported by a police officer who was at the mall in the vicinity of Nordstrom when the shots were fired. The chief said there were 16 officers working at the mall at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Initial dispatch audio indicated that two suspects may have had guns. Chief Hodges said that police were able to review surveillance video from the incident which showed that two groups consisting of five to nine black males had gotten into a physical altercation when one of them pulled out a gun and fired shots. Hodges said he didn\u2019t know at this point whether more than one gun was present during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The altercation only lasted about 30 seconds, and then five to seven of the people ran out the door at Nordstrom, Chief Hodges said, implying that the parties ran to a door that led outside, not into the mall.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Current scene outside Mall of America \u2013 now being taped off by police as lots of shoppers try to leave w\/ temperatures near -30 here in Bloomington, Minnesota. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZrTd3YgeTL\">pic.twitter.com\/ZrTd3YgeTL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rebecca Brannon (@RebsBrannon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RebsBrannon\/status\/1606483281452711937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The victim was shot multiple times, Hodges said, but declined to give further details citing the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The chief urged the suspects to turn themselves in to police.<\/p>\n<p>The Hennepin County Sheriff\u2019s Office assisted in processing the crime scene, and the chief said ATF would also be contacted since the incident involved firearms.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Hodges said that Nordstrom would be closed but the mall would be operational from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday. He also said that he expected to have more public information to release on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third gunfire incident at the Mall of America in less than a year. Two people were struck by gunfire on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alphanews.org\/shooting-at-mall-of-america-on-new-years-eve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Year\u2019s Eve<\/a>\u00a0a year ago, and shots were fired inside the mall in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alphanews.org\/lockdown-lifted-after-shots-fired-at-mall-of-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another incident in August<\/a>\u00a0of this year. Just three weeks after the August incident, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alphanews.org\/armed-robber-arrested-inside-mall-of-america-after-being-tackled-by-mall-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">man armed with a rifle<\/a>\u00a0made his way up to a hat shop on the third floor of the mall and demanded merchandise during a robbery.<\/p>\n<p>Alpha News will continue to follow developments in Friday\u2019s shooting.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/crimewatchmpls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota Crime Watch &amp; Information<\/a>\u00a0publishes news, info and commentary about crime, public safety and livability issues in Minneapolis, the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>This article originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/alphanews.org\/mall-of-america-shooting-leaves-teen-dead-friday-night\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alpha News<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing\" data-heateor-sss-href=\"https:\/\/www.lawofficer.com\/mall-of-america-shooting-leaves-teen-dead\/\">\n<p>Share and speak up for justice, law &amp; 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