Gunman dead and 2 wounded -- including 12-year-old-girl -- in Alabama mall shooting

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN


By Joe Sutton and Madeline Holcombe, CNN

Updated 7:38 AM ET, Fri November 23, 2018

(CNN) - A Thanksgiving night shooting at Alabama's largest enclosed mall left a gunman dead and two people -- including a 12-year-old girl -- injured, authorities said, and sent terrified shoppers running for safety.

The incident at the Riverchase Galleria in the Birmingham suburb of Hoover started with a fight between an 18-year-old and the 21-year-old gunman, police said. The confrontation occurred in the mall shortly before 10 p.m. (11 p.m. ET), near the Footaction and JC Penney stores.

Police do not know how the confrontation began, but "we do not believe at this point the 18-year-old was armed," Hoover police Capt. Gregg Rector said.

The gunman opened fire, shooting the teen twice in the torso, according to police.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/23/us/alabama-mall-hoover-shooting/index.html

[mucifer]

1. This seems like one of the few cases where the gunman was stopped

by a police officer with a gun before the gunman killed anyone.

Rarely happens this way. I'm glad no one else died.

[Demit]

2. Story says the gunman was running away from the scene.

"An armed Hoover police officer who was working security at the mall confronted the gunman as he ran away from the scene and fatally shot him, police said.

A 12-year-old girl described by police as a bystander also was shot once, but it's unclear by whom, Rector said."


I guess we can't know whether or not the guy was going to shoot anyone else while running away, but that second sentence seems to heavily imply that the girl might've been shot by the cop. We'll never hear a followup, of course.