just a moment. also though today for the first time since last week s riots, the shopping mall has re-opened its doors to customers. the employees that depend on it for their livelihood. this was the mall where those rioters smashed glass and looted stores. baltimore s mayor says the open mall gives her hope that her city is beginning to heal. this is just a great day for this community to have the mall re-open. it s a wonderful day. i was proud to support the investments that i think it was the baltimore development corporation made into this mall to do the major renovations and to see it bounce back so quickly just gives me a lot of optimism. cnn s nick valencia and sara sidner are with me both in baltimore, they ve both been talking to people who spent their day at this rally. nick let me go to you first. what are people telling you? you ve been here marching with people in the street yesterday
with a weapon that he used to do the firing inside the mall. there doesn t appear to be anyone else that was injured. a lot of frightened people that were here tonight, but law enforcement did an absolute fabulous job, particularly the s.w.a.t. units, who had to comb through 2.2 million square feet of floor space. he did drive here. we have his vehicle. it s being processed now. the scene is being processed in accordance with normal law enforcement procedures and, of course, i should say that we were working with the owners of westfield throughout the night. they were very cooperative and i know all of you a aware that the mall is already closed tomorrow. i d like to call upon the instant commander for the last few hours here and that is the chief. chief? good morning. please proceed up to the
a door left unlocked. a chain that was not properly connected. then he would make a show of leaving and sneak back into the house to see if he could catch her trying to escape. and if and when he did, the punishment was swift. it was brutal. and it lasted for days and days at a time. there were also periods of time where she would be left all alone. no food, no water, no bathroom for days, right? she came out weighing 75 pounds, which was just a little over half of her body weight when she went in. emergency call this evening. he is dead. his name was richard shoot. resides in new jersey. his body was discovered at approximately 3:20 a.m. this this morning in a back area of the mall, very deep into an area that was under construction. it took, as you know, all night for over 500 s.w.a.t. and law
discovered deep into the mall. he moved further moo the mall once he had come in. he had driven to the mall and according to the authorities fired six rounds. obviously, this caused terror and panic and chaos in the mall. 400 people apparently barricaded themselves in shops and were in lockdown. this is ongoing. the police are still going store to store and letting people know everything is okay. i have to repeat. no injuries apart from the one victim, the gunman himself, he took his own life and he was discovered deep in a back room of the mall but that search still going on of the mall to let those people know that everything is okay and that can now come out. now they are just doing questions and answers in that press conference. we will leave it there, though, for the time being. stay with us. we will be right back after the break. this is cnn breaking news.
enforcement officers here to search this large structure. mr. shoop arrived at the mall approximately after 9:00 tonight and around 9:20 this evening, entered the open mall area and by open mall, i mean he was not inside a retail store, he was in a mall area. he took out a sig type of weapon to modified to look like an ak-37. it was his brother s and he stole it sometime this evening and came to the mall and fired what is at least six rounds at random, striking several different locations in the mall. it caused, of course, a bit of panic. thousands of people began to run out of the mall as law enforcement officers arrived. there was an emergency evacuation of the mall.