Eight Injured In Shooting at US Mall In Wisconsin, Gunman Missing
Washington: Eight people were injured on Friday at US Mall in Wisconsin, in a shooting by an unidentified person, said police. The police are haunting for the shooter. FBI officers were on the scene at the Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, supporting the “active” response by local police said FBI in a tweet.
“When emergency personnel arrived, the shooter was no longer at the scene,” the Wauwatosa Police Department said in a statement. The FBI in its note said that the wounded included seven adults and one teenager who had been rushed to hospital. The seriousness of their injuries was not immediately known, but Wauwatosa mayor Dennis McBride told ABC news their injuries were not life threatening. The shooter was identified by police as a “white male in his 20s or 30s.”
Numerous workers at the mall took shelter inside the building as the shooter rampaged, according to videos circulating on social media. Shopper Jill Wooley told a local news station she was inside with her 79-year-old mother when the gunfire erupted. “I knew right away it was a gunshot and they just kept coming one right after the other,” Wooley told CBS affiliate WDJT. “We just dropped to the floor.”