UPDATE: According to police, the gunman opened fire with a rifle in the mall’s food court, and an armed civilian fatally shot him. Four people, including the suspected gunman, have been killed and two have been wounded.
In this file photo, shoppers leave the Greenwood Park Mall, on Monday, May 4, 2020, in Greenwood, Ind. A gunman opened fre inside the mall on Sunday, July 17, 20222. GREENWOOD, Ind. — Three people were fatally shot and two were injured Sunday evening after a man with a rifle opened fire in the food court of an Indiana mall. A legally armed bystander shot and killed the assailant, who has not yet been identified publicly by authorities.
Greenwood Police Department Chief Jim Ison said during a news conference that the man carried several magazines of ammunition into the mall, but he did not identify the shooter.Ison also stated that police confiscated a suspicious backpack that was found in a bathroom near the food court. While police previously confirmed that the suspected shooter is dead, it was not immediately clear if the gunman is counted among the police department’s confirmed death toll, the TV station reported.that all evidence indicates that the shots were only fired in the mall’s food court area.
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