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Tuesday 11 December 2012

Masked gunman opens fire in Oregon shopping mall, kills two people

A gunman opened fire in a suburban Portland shopping mall Tuesday, killing two people and wounding another as people were doing their Christmas shopping, authorities said.

Witnesses described a scene of chaos and disbelief as a gunman wearing some sort of camouflage outfit and a white mask shot an initial burst of fire and then more rounds at Clackamas Town Center. Shoppers tried to find safe areas as teams of police officers began entering the mall to find the shooter.

Clackamas County sheriff's Lt. James Rhodes said later that the gunman was dead, but he wouldn't say how he died or provide any details about him.

Authorities were going store-to-store to secure the scene and to escort hiding shoppers outside, but Rhodes said there was no indication that there was more than one shooter.
Austin Patty, 20, who works at Macy's, said he saw a man in a white mask carrying a rifle and wearing a bulletproof vest.
He heard the gunman say "I am the shooter," as if announcing himself, Patty said. He then fired several shots paced seconds apart.
A series of rapid-fire shots in short succession followed. Patty said he ducked to the ground, then ran.
His Macy's co-worker, Pam Moore, told The Associated Press the gunman was short, with dark hair, dressed in camouflage. He had body armor and a rifle.
"I heard about 20 shots and everyone hit the ground," Moore said. "That's when we all just ran."
Shaun Wik, 20, from Fairview, said he was Christmas shopping with his girlfriend and opened a fortune cookie at the food court. Inside was written "live for today, remember yesterday, think of tomorrow."
As he read it, he heard three shots. He heard a man he believes was the gunman shout, "Get down!" but Wik and his girlfriend ran. He heard seven or eight more shots. He didn't turn around.
"If I had looked back, I might not be standing here," Wik said. "I might have been one of the ones who got hit."
Kira Rowland told KGW-TV that she was shopping at Macy's with her infant son when the shots started.
"All of a sudden you hear two shots, which sounded like balloons popping," Rowland told the station. "Everybody got on the ground. I grabbed the baby from the stroller and got on the ground."
Rowland said she heard people screaming and crying.
"I put the baby back in the stroller and ran like hell," Rowland said. "It was awful. It was shots after shots after shots like a massacre.
"It was just awful."

Holli Bautista, 28, said she was shopping in the Macy's for a Christmas dress for her daughter when she heard a two or three pops that sounded like firecrackers.
"I heard people running and screaming and saying 'Get out, there's somebody shooting,'" she told the AP. "It was a scene of chaos."

She said hundreds of shoppers and mall employees started running, and she and dozens of other people were trying to escape through an exit in the department store.

Bautista said the Macy's opens into the food court area, where it was reported the shootings took place. Bautista said it sounded like the shots were coming from that direction.
Tiffany Turgetto and her husband of Gladstone had exited Macy's through the first floor when they heard the gunshots coming from the second floor of the mall.

"People in front of us people were dropping, finding covering," she told the AP. "People were yelling screaming and gasping, yelling to get out. The lady next to us, she threw a chair and started running. We couldn't run because the chair was there."

Turgetto and her husband and other people were able to quickly leave through a Barnes & Noble bookstore before the police arrived and locked down the mall.
"I had left my phone at home. I was telling people to call 911. Surprisingly, people are around me, no one was calling 911. I think people were in shock."

Source: Yahoo News

18 comments:

★★PRINCE CHARMING™★★ said...

Smh... Yankee with their own problems, how sad!

Anonymous said...

Hmmmm crazy pple everywhere may d souls of d departed rest in peace

«~DORA said...

Thank You my beautiful Jesus!! Pple never cease 2 amaze me!! My family loves shopping there,and my elder brother is the clackamas community chairman! I hav just checked on them, and they r all fine, none of Dem was at d mall 2day! I bless God for his never ending protection and love towards us! Make una help me bless His holy name my pple! Christmas is jst by the corner, I'm grateful for my family is still complete and despite the wickedness of d devil against us, there Has not and will never be anymore cries of sorrow in my family! In Jesus's mighty name! Amen!!
«~DORA

(Please no harsh or hateful comments, I'm jst testifying to glorify the name of God and tell of His goodness..) thanks my pple

ktalent said...

And i'm trying to convince my mother to move to America. Mtchew

Anonymous said...

na nigeria own cum better pas...It happen everywhere, itz life.

Anonymous said...

Sir, pls is this the only thing you do.?
Cos its becoming annoying..

Anonymous said...

I tot ds happend in a suburban area in scotland? So y ds comments on America? What does crisis in scotland got to do with America? Awon pple ehn..(confused smiley)

Anonymous said...

oregun for ikeja ..hehehehehe..oregon in the states

Anonymous said...

In a con3 wher guns r sold lyk handset. RIP to the dead.

Unknown said...

dem go 1st tink say na banger dem blow

Anonymous said...

shit men!!! i wud jst pee on maself!!!

dejay said...

lol@dora... you know some crazy pple will still talk..lwkmd

Unknown said...

Please read the story

Anonymous said...

Hmmm

Anonymous said...

Portland,Oregon is in America o! Ekpa mumu.

stacydiamond said...

oyibo and their phychotic ways>>>i tire oooo

justaijay said...

Whites n their wahala.. Naija, una lyk copy copy na, no copy ds one o

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