Century City shopping mall: the wanted suspect reports a man with a gun, a suspicious package scares

CENTURY CITY, LOS ANGELES (KABC) – Police are seeking arson and assault with a deadly weapons suspect following a major warning in a Century City shopping mall that resulted in a major evacuation Friday.

The evacuation to Westfield Century City was lifted at approximately 5:30 pm after a report of a man with a firearm and a suspicious package caused panic among shoppers and employees at the mall.

After an investigation of several hours, the Los Angeles police said that there was no evidence of fire, and the mine clearance team officials determined that a suspicious box on the scene was not an explosive.

No one was arrested or arrested immediately, but there were suspicions that someone might have fired the box. Investigators said that no injuries had been reported.

It all started shortly before 1 pm Los Angeles police said that when looking for an alleged man with a gun, the agents had been directed to a suspicious box inside the Amazon store. The AIR7 HD video was showing smoke from the Amazon Store. We do not know what was inside the box.

The box started to smoke when a person described by witnesses as being a green-bandanna man with bushy hair left the Amazon store. The authorities were watching a video surveillance to determine if this person had lit the burning package.

Los Angeles police later tweeted a photo Friday night of what they described as arson and assault with a deadly armed suspect. He remains on the run and is described as being probably Hispanic or Asian, aged 20 to 25, between 5 feet 8 inches and 5 feet 10 inches and weighing between 130 and 150 pounds. He must be considered armed and dangerous, the police said.

Around 2.30 pm The LAPD urged the people staying on site to remain calm and to leave the premises. The images sent to the Eyewitness press room showed clients who were settling in the basement of H & M. After being stuck there for about two hours, they were then evacuated.

All available police resources were sent to the mall, including the mine clearance team, during the incident.

The authorities emptied the shopping center safely. Many customers and employees were escorted to the nearest exit. The nearby school of Beverly Hills High School has been placed in solitary confinement as a result of an incident, the Beverly Hills Police Department said.

It was a scary situation for many people.

"I had just got to work, then I saw my colleagues running around and he said," Drop everything and run, "and we rushed to the door as we were running to the door. We heard a shot, and then I saw the security, and the mall security said, keep going, keep going, "said a mall employee, Gisell Lopez.

The former Florida governor candidate, Andrew Gillum, was at the mall and was stuck inside for hours. He tweeted live during the incident and shared a video after going out.

"It was moving to think about the fact that my three children and many children are being trained every day in these schools and that our society has become so insensitive that we can even say words and think you are fleeing a possible shooter. – that it is normal, it is not normal, it is not correct, "he said.

Police set up a perimeter around the mall and closed Santa Monica Boulevard due to the investigation. It has since been reopened.