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  • Three dead in shooting at US mall: officials | The Guardian Nigeria News

    Three dead in shooting at US mall: officials | The Guardian Nigeria News

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    Three people were killed and another three injured Sunday at a mall in the US state of Indiana, officials said, the latest in a spate of gun violence in the country.

    “We experienced a mass shooting this evening at the Greenwood Park Mall,” Mark Myers, the mayor of Greenwood, Indiana, said in a statement.

    “We have three fatalities at this time and three others injured.”

    Myers said that the gunman had been shot dead by “an armed individual.”

    The Greenwood police shared a post on their Facebook page asking for witnesses to the shooting to contact the department with information.

    The attack is the latest in a wave of gun violence plaguing the United States, where about 40,000 deaths a year are caused by firearms, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

    It comes just weeks after a gunman opened fire on a July 4 parade in an affluent Chicago suburb, killing seven people and injuring at least three dozen.

    That shooting followed two massacres in May that saw 10 Black people gunned down at an upstate New York supermarket, and 19 children and two teachers slain at an elementary school in Texas.

    The recent surge in gun violence has reignited the divisive debate over firearm regulation. A committee of the US House of Representatives is set to vote this week for the first time in nearly 20 years on a bill that would ban assault weapons.



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  • Gunman kills 3 in mall shooting before being fatally shot by civilian, Indiana police say

    Gunman kills 3 in mall shooting before being fatally shot by civilian, Indiana police say

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    Three people were fatally shot and two were injured Sunday evening at an Indiana mall after a man with a rifle opened fire in a food court and an armed civilian shot and killed him, police said.

    The man entered the Greenwood Park Mall with a rifle and several magazines of ammunition and began firing in the food court, Greenwood Police Department Chief Jim Ison said.

    A 22-year-old from nearby Bartholomew County who was legally carrying a firearm at the mall shot and killed the gunman, Ison said at a news conference.

    Four of those hit by gunfire were females and one was a male, Ison said. He didn’t immediately know the specific gender or age of those who were killed.

    He said a 12-year-old girl was among the two injured, both of whom are in stable condition.

    Officers went to the mall at about 6 p.m. local time for reports of the shooting. Authorities are searching the mall for any other victims, but they believe the shooting was contained to the food court.

    Police have confiscated a suspicious backpack that was in a bathroom near the food court, Ison said.

    The Greenwood Park Mall is seen on Sunday. (Arika Herron/The Indianapolis Star via AP)

    The mass shooting was just the latest to unnerve Americans in 2022. Schools, churches, grocery stores and a July Fourth parade in Highland Park, Illinois, have all become killing grounds in recent months. 

    Indianapolis Metropolitan Police and multiple other agencies are assisting in the investigation.

    “We are sickened by yet another type of incident like this in our country,” Indianapolis Assistant Chief of Police Chris Bailey said.

    There is no active threat to the area, Bailey said.

    Greenwood is a south suburb of Indianapolis with a population of about 60,000. Mayor Mark Myers asked for “prayers to the victims and our first responders.”

    “This tragedy hits at the core of our community,” Myers said in a statement.

    Authorities said they would provide more details Monday.

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