A North Carolina mall was evacuated after three people were reportedly shot on Friday afternoon.
“DPD is investigating a shooting incident at The Streets at Southpoint,” police in Durham, North Carolina tweeted Friday. “The mall is being evacuated and will be closed while DPD investigates the incident. Motorists are advised to avoid the area. There is no further threat at the mall.”
One person is in custody in relation to the shooting, according to Fox 8, and three people were reported shot. One person died.
The three people shot included a 10-year-old, Durham Police Chief Patrice Andrews said at a news conference Friday evening. Police did not specify how the three other injuries occurred, although there are reports of two people being trampled.
The shootings have to stop,” Andrews said.
She added that the shooting “occurred between two groups that knew each other,” and that they “were not indiscriminately firing.”
⚠️🇺🇸#URGENT: Emerging reports of shots fired at Southpoint Mall in Durham, North Carolina#Durham l #NC
Unconfirmed reports indicate shots have been fired inside the mall, possibly near the food court. Mall lockdown protocol has now been initiated.
Updates to follow! pic.twitter.com/l3QqYBF8JY— Intel Point ALERT (@IntelPointAlert) November 26, 2021
A reporter was in the store at the time.
I’m currently locked in a store with other shoppers due to a lockdown situation in Streets at Southpoint Mall in #Durham.
We’re waiting to hear from security what prompted this situation.
While shopping, I saw many people running. @TheDurhamPolice @WRAL #wral pic.twitter.com/dCVGWP40L8
— Aaron Thomas (@WRALAaron) November 26, 2021
We just pulled up and seen people running out of Southpoint mall @WRAL #wral #southpointmall #durhamnc @SpecNews1CLT @WRALAaron pic.twitter.com/ltPyxssuqz
— XO (@lateonya) November 26, 2021
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All of this useless killing is easily and humane avoidable,
Some in government, need people to be murdered to gain power.
MAGA conservative Constitutionalist Americans, of all races and gender want it to stop.
Anybody who don’t agree with the Americans I mentioned, need to look into the mirror, you have blood on your hands.
The shoppers are being terrorized; the US is becoming a war zone.
It will get so bad there will be a shootout in the toilet paper aisle (?)
The CPUSA would love it.
No go zone for shopper’s cathedrals today but did hit up grocery for restock on some supplies, light traffic for Friday with registers open and cash accepted.
Shopzilla is about a block away with the ten mile stripmall and new entries moving in with Costco, the Deutschland budget grocery Aldi, bring your own bag, shopping cart rental 25¢ and a Taj Mahal upgrade for the Sack-N-Save in Bro’s town that will feature price hike-o-rama in order to pay for it all.