19-year-old killed in a shooting at the largest shopping center in the US - CNN

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A 19-year-old antheral was killed Friday successful a shooting during an altercation astatine the Mall of America successful Minnesota, the nation’s largest buying and amusement center, constabulary said.

Just earlier 8 p.m section time, officers heard gunshots connected the archetypal level of the Nordstrom store. When officers went into the Nordstrom, they recovered 1 antheral changeable aggregate times, Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a quality league precocious Friday night. Police are moving to place the suspect.

Lifesaving measures were performed but were unsuccessful, Hodges said.

A bystander was besides grazed by a slug but is expected to beryllium OK.

The 30-year-old mall, astir 10 miles southbound of downtown Minneapolis, has much than 500 stores, much than 50 eating options, dozens of attractions and 2 hotels, according to the owners.

Friday’s shooting comes astir 5 months aft suspects fired gunshots into a crowded store astatine the mall.

Preliminary probe reveals that determination was an altercation Friday betwixt a radical of astir 5 to 9 radical wrong Nordstrom. Store surveillance video shows a antheral pulling retired a weapon and shooting the victim, Hodges said.

“We person an incidental wherever if idiosyncratic decides that they privation to propulsion retired a weapon and sprout idiosyncratic with implicit deficiency of disrespect for quality life, I inactive don’t cognize what we tin bash to halt that,” Hodges said.

A motive for the shooting is not known.

Jovonta Patton, a Billboard gospel singer, was filming an Instagram reel astatine Gucci wrong of Nordstrom astatine the Mall of America, erstwhile gunshots went disconnected successful the background.

Patton told CNN they rapidly ran to the backmost country of the store to fell for astir 15 minutes.

There were astir six oregon 7 different radical successful the room, Patton says.