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A Thanksgiving night that fired at Alabama's largest closed shopping mall killed one person and two people – including a 12-year-old girl – were wounded, authorities said, sending terrified buyers to the hospital. search for security.
HOOVER, Alaska – A 21-year-old man killed by an officer in a shopping mall in Alabama on Thanksgiving night "probably did not fire," police said.
The shooting at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover took place Thursday night, one of the busiest days of shopping.
Authorities mistakenly thought that Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. had fired the cartridges that left an 18-year-old hospitalized, said Capt Gregg Rector, spokesman for the Hoover Police Department.
The police first announced that Bradford had opened fire after an altercation with the 18 year old man and that an officer had shot him while he was fleeing the scene. . Late in the night from Friday to Friday, police said that while Bradford was involved in "one aspect of the altercation" and was armed with a handgun, he probably did not shoot the bullets that hurt both people.
"We regret that our initial press release was not entirely accurate, but new evidence indicates that this was not the case," Rector said.
Police: the altercation involved more than 2 people
Police said the error was highlighted after Jefferson County Sheriff's Office investigators and crime scene experts spoke to witnesses and examined the evidence for 20 hours.
"Investigators now believe that more than two people were involved in the first altercation," Rector said. "This information indicates that there is at least one armed man still on the run."
The officer involved in the shooting is on administrative leave while waiting for an investigation.
The Hoover police will fully cooperate with the investigation and will conduct a separate internal investigation into the portion of the trial involving an officer, said the rector.
The shooting in Alabama's largest closed shopping mall took place shortly before 10 pm (23h ET) Thursday night.
The police do not know how the confrontation began, but said they did not believe that the 18-year-old was armed. The shooter opened fire and fired twice on the teenager's torso, according to the police.
An armed police officer Hoover, who worked at the security of the shopping center, clashed with an armed man who was fleeing and fatally shot dead, the authorities said.
A 12-year-old girl described by the police as a passer-by was shot once, but by whom, says Rector. The two wounded were taken to the hospital.
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Witnesses described chaotic scenes in which gunshots rang out as patrons screamed and staff worked to help people flee or hide, witnesses said.
"They put us in storage cupboards and locked the doors. And then we sat there for five to ten minutes to panic, "said Lexie Joyner at WBRC. "And then they opened the doors of the emergency exits and we escaped.
Hoover is about 10 miles south of Birmingham.
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