Four folks have been dead, together with the suspected shooter, after a man with a long gun entered a mall south of Indianapolis, Indiana, and opened fire with a long gun, police mentioned.
Two others have been injured and hospitalized within the early night assault at Greenwood Park Mall, Jim Ison, the police chief of Greenwood, Indiana, mentioned at a Sunday night time news convention. Their situations weren’t identified.
The shooter appeared to have been fatally shot by a “good Samaritan” who witnessed the assault and opened fire with a handgun with the intention of ending it, Ison mentioned.
“It appears that he had a rifle with several magazines of ammunition, entered the food court, and began shooting,” the chief mentioned of the suspected gunman.
The gunfire was reported shortly after 6 p.m., Ison mentioned. The chief gave no indication the shooter knew any of the victims or that the assault was private.
“This type of situation is horrible,” he mentioned. “It’s rocked us to our core.”
The motive and circumstances have been nonetheless being investigated, he mentioned.
Officers, together with members of the Indianapolis division’s SWAT staff, have been going via the mall Sunday night time to guarantee nobody injured was hiding or in any other case in want of assist, an officer with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department mentioned.
A backpack that police imagine was left by the gunman in a lavatory turned out not to be a menace, he mentioned.
A spokesperson for the mall didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
