1 dead in shooting at crowded Fla. mall

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061225/ap_on_re_us/mall_shooting

1 dead in shooting at crowded Fla. mall

By JESSICA GRESKO, Associated Press Writer 18 minutes ago

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. - A gunman fatally shot a man in a fight at a crowded mall on Sunday, then sent hundreds of Christmas shoppers running for cover as he fired at police chasing him, authorities said.

SWAT team members arrested the suspect after he barricaded himself in a department store at the Boynton Beach Mall, north of Miami, said Boynton Beach Police Lt. Jeffrey Katz said.

The mall was evacuated, and Katz said it was miraculous no one else was injured when the shooting broke out in midafternoon.

"The suspect ran through the mall and began to fire at officers as they were chasing him through the mall," Katz said. "Our officers did not return fire."

Sinette White, 19, of Lake Worth, told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel she heard popping sounds while getting her nails done and then saw a man on the ground.

She said shoppers gathered around the man as police arrived to give CPR, but then they heard more shots and police told them to take cover. She said the mall was locked down for about an hour before she was evacuated.

The gunman barricaded himself in part of a Dillard's store and refused to surrender when officers contacted him through the public address system, Katz said. A SWAT team entered the store and captured the man without incident, he said.

It was the second shooting this weekend at a North Carolina mall.

One man was slightly wounded at Charlotte's Eastland Mall on Friday evening when an argument between two groups of men ended with one firing through glass entrance doors. No arrests were immediately made.

A terrible way to spend Christmas and those there-after. Prayers to the family of the deceased.
Presumably this will lead to metal detectors in shopping malls and more armed guards and police.
Tomorrow morning amid the opening of long awaited presents and sitting down to Christmas dinner ... lets say a prayer for the family of the one killed.

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