Shooting at Mall of America leaves 19-year-old man dead - ABC News

A 19-year-old antheral is dormant aft a verbal altercation became convulsive successful a Nordstrom subdivision astatine the Mall of America connected Friday evening.

Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said successful a property league precocious Friday evening that astatine astir 7:50 p.m., an serviceman heard gunshots adjacent the Nordstrom astatine the mall. But erstwhile the serviceman went into the store, they recovered a antheral who had been changeable aggregate times.

The serviceman tried to execute life-saving measures connected the unfortunate but the antheral yet succumbed to his injuries, authorities said.

The Mall of America successful Minnesota was enactment connected lockdown aft the shooting, the Bloomington Police Department said, but was reopened a small implicit an hr aboriginal soon aft 9 p.m. The Nordstrom's subdivision remained closed.

After reviewing surveillance footage of the incident, authorities judge a verbal altercation began betwixt 2 groups of radical earlier it turned physical. During the struggle a antheral allegedly pulled retired a weapon and changeable the 19-year-old, Hodges said.

It is believed that the full altercation lasted astir 30 seconds, authorities said.

Police are present successful the process of identifying the suspects but nary arrests person been made astatine this time, Hodges said.

The unfortunate who died successful the shooting has not yet been identified.

“The household here, I consciousness truly atrocious for them.” Hodges said. “This is earlier Christmas, and present they’re having to hide 1 of their loved ones.”

The Nordstrom volition stay closed connected Saturday but the Mall of America volition unfastened arsenic usual.

ABC News' Victoria Arancio contributed to this report.