NC Mall Evacuated After Officer-Involved Shooting
By Bob Owens
Northlake Mall in Charlotte, NC, was evacuated today after an off-duty police officer was forced to shoot a suspect who refused to drop his weapon after shooting someone else inside a shoe store.
Officers and paramedics were called to the mall off of W.T. Harris Boulevard in north Charlotte just after 2 p.m. and Channel 9 viewers said they could hear shots being fired inside the mall.
Paramedics said they were treating one person with a leg injury and a woman who went into labor. MEDIC transported one person with minor injuries to Novant Huntersville.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said that an argument inside the mall between two people led to the shooting.
CMPD told Channel 9 that officers who were working off-duty at the mall arrived and shot and killed an armed man.
No officers were injured and police said this was not an active shooter situation.
Channel 9 reporter Jason Stoogenke said he saw more than 30 police cruisers at the mall and more were still arriving.
Three separate witnesses told him that two people were involved in a fight inside a shoe store when one pulled a gun and shot the other.
Witnesses said police confronted the gunman and told him to drop his weapon, …Read the Rest
Source:: Bearing Arms
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