Mall of America shooting: 'Whoever did this, we will catch them' - FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (FOX 9) - The Mall of America went into a lockdown aft a shooting Friday evening that near 1 idiosyncratic dormant aft an altercation.

FOX 9 confirms 1 idiosyncratic was changeable and killed aft 2 groups of males appeared to beryllium fighting, according to police.

"This is conscionable stupid, stupid, stupid," said Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges. "Whoever did this, we volition drawback them. And whoever helps them, we volition fastener you up, too."

Bloomington Police initially responded to the tract astatine Nordstrom, wherever they provided life-saving measures to the unfortunate earlier they were pronounced dead. The full incidental lasted astir 30 seconds, according to police. 

After the lockdown, the promenade confirms that each were evacuated, and the promenade remained closed for the evening. It volition reopen again Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Police would not item the existent beingness of metallic detectors astatine entrances astatine the Mall of America.

FOX 9 unit is onsite and moving to corroborate details with authorities regarding a unfortunate information and fishy whereabouts.

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