Bell. You can imagine when school gets out around 3 00. Hundreds of students flood the area and that is part of the problem. [ screaming ] reporter trouble like this happens almost everyday. Students tell me deer valley plaza is are you go to fight. At school, if you are not at school, you go to the plaza and then fight. And then get away with it. People bring weapons and everything. A lot of things going on. Reporter it has gotten so bad, some businesses including taco bell shut down after school to try to keep the kids away. But that doesnt stop them. Just earlier today, police were called out to break up another fight. I think its pretty sad. Reporter and people who work here say it is only getting worse. The fights, they come an hide in here after the fights and they are planning other fights. Reporter this employee was too scared to go on camera especially after this happened. One time, this girl knocked over all of our stuff. All the stuff on the front counter. She just knocked e
Axelrod good evening. This is a western edition of the broadcast. It was just about a quarter past 11 00 on a typically busy saturday morning at one of the largest malls in the washington, d. C. Metro area when someone started shooting inside a skate and snow boarding store. Suddenly there was nothing typical about this saturday at this mall in colombia, maryland. As jeff pegues reports, inside three people, including the gunman, were dead. Reporter saphone lilly is one of the survivors of the shooting. She says the shooter was young and firing randomly. She was outside the hospital when she told us that the gunman shot at her, too. The shooter looked straight at me from the secondfloor level and shot the first time, i ducked. The plaster in the wall came all over me. I moved my niece out of the way. My girlfriend was there. And he shot again. Reporter the shooting happened at 11 15 a. M. In a packed colombia mall. Shoppers ran for cover. George miles said he heard the sound of gunfire
with your employees and co-workers. lauren stapleton we are glad you are okay and thank you for your perspective. you guys will be very welcome. i will do anything in my power to save a young child. god bless you. the violence in maryland is the latest in the string of mall shootings that have taken place. you remember in garden state plaza in new jersey a man opened fire and turned it on himself. four men went on a rampage in an upscale mall outside of this country in kenya. there were americans in that mall. that siege went on for days. terrorist, held people at bay, at least 67 people died before the thing was over. and in december 2012, gunshots rang out in portland, oregon and two people killed in that and