Us live from paramus. She has been there all morning and has more on the investigation. Reporter the county prosecutor here describes the shooter as someone that is depressed and despondent. He says that that was part of the reason he may have come in here not necessarily inflick harm on others but to draw not necessarily to inflict harm on others but to draw attention to himself and kill himself. Police say 20yearold Richard Shoop walked into the Garden State Plaza mall in paramus, new jersey, just before closing and opened fire. These women came face to face with the shooter. Out of nowhere, the guy walks right past the front door and he is shooting shots in the air. He paused for a second and just looked inside the store. I just froze. Reporter Police Quickly responded and s. W. A. T. Team members stormed the facility. The shooter, for whatever reason, instead of staying and fighting, fled deeper into the mall. Reporter officials put the mall in lockdown and began a methodical searc
Livermore. The westbound traffic was blocked all the way into tracy. Heavy traffic is still remaining near 50 minutes. That east shore freeway is at 25 minutes now it is twice the commute. There was an earlier our current accident that has now cleared. South bay freeway is already getting slow especially 85 in 101 on northbound from south san jose. The back up almost reaches all the way we have no complaints. Were waking up to blue skies. The frost advisory has been cancelled. The temperatures are mild and the 40s and 50s. We will see a range from low 60s to the low 70s. Tomorrow, will be the warmest day and the temperatures will start to slide. I will talk about the rain coming up. Police say that the gunman at the new jersey mall is dead of an apparent suicide. The body of 20 yearold Richard Shoop of teaneck, new jersey was found in the back area of the mall early this morning. Authority say that he killed himself with the same weapon that he used at the mall. The mall will be closed
male announcer this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. Restaurants are wonderful. Catherine now at 8 catherine big crowds for opening day at one of californias largest casinos. Graton resort and casino opened this morning in rohnert park. So many people wanted to see it the casino was forced to close its doors for awhile. Catherine and right now, people are still lining up to get a chance to play. Kron 4s Charles Clifford is there live. Charles . Reporter it reminds me of field of dreams, if you build it they will come. Yeah reporter when the doors opened around 9 tuesday morning, thousands of people flocked inside the new graton resort and casino. Outside traffic was backed up all day, as chp and casino employees tried to shepard drivers along surface streets and through the parking lots reporter by midday the casino was at capacity. Long lines formed at the entrances and visitors were only being allowed in when someone else left the building. Reporter inside, the c
Studying in los angeles. He came to San Francisco october 25th to look into studying at academy of art university. He was only going to stay a couple days, but after meeting someone new he extended his stay. When he called his family in brazil one week ago, anna knew something was terribly wrong. He sound terrified, afraid, frightening. Reporter anna called San Francisco police from brazil, but when they arrived at the scene, no one was there. Now police are circulating this, a surveillance shot of a person of interest who used palos credit card at a mcdonalds in the mission on halloween. Anna wants to find that person and plans to stay in San Francisco until she has some answers. Something happened. We are sure about it. But we feel that we are going to find him. Reporter in San Francisco kristin ayers. Kpix5. Now San Francisco police say palo may be in what they call an altered state of mind. If you know anything, police want to hear from you. Breaking news out of new jersey where th
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