Off-duty cop
turns Christmas Eve hero, kills mall gunman, Shoppers sprint for safety: 'I grabbed my mom, dropped my stuff
and ran', by Douglas Ernst, 12/24/15, WND
An off-duty cop in North
Carolina became a Christmas Eve hero by shooting and killing an armed gunman
inside a packed mall.
Last-minute shoppers
sprinted from inside Charlotte’s Northlake Mall Friday afternoon as an armed
man and his friends turned an argument with another group violent.
“I had no idea what to
do so I grabbed my mom, dropped my stuff and ran out of the store,” said
shopper Caryl Santos, the Charlotte Observer reported. “Pow, pow, pow, pow, eight or nine
[shots were fired] in all,” mall employee Nicole Kirkpatrick added.
Mecklenburg Police
Department confirmed the gunman’s death on Friday but stressed the afternoon
chaos was not due to an active-shooter emergency. Carolinas Medical Center said
one person was shot in the leg and two others suffered minor injuries before
the suspect was killed.
No officers were
injured, WBTV-3 reported. Witnesses told the network the
altercation was related to a recent shooting involving the deceased-suspect’s
brother.
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