this is the video kristen mentioned. one of the victims, shooting victims lying on the ground. you can see moving their arms as they re being attended to by presumably a passerby or a friend. ? you see the pink dresses there behind him. we believe that s nicole s bridal and formalwear. and that would be on the second floor. when you go up the escalateors from the food court the food court sort of continues because it kind of expanded to the upstairs part. so it s on the first floor and the second floor. the food court. but we think this is the second floor right above the main food court. nicole s bridal. and then right across from there is the century movie theater. so in the afternoon in the summer a lot of teens go and hang out there. and they believe the shooting victims are teenagers. again, we understand the two victims are 15 and 18ea old respectively. this is video of one of the victims being removed from the mall by authorities and with some s.w.a.t. officers as well. yo
and dozens and dozens of officersand firefighters responding to the scene very, very quickly. it is a fairly small city, but it s been growing. certainly in economic importance too. with the addition of youtube in recent years with it being headquartered there, in fact sadly just about a year ago there was a shooting there from a woman who was unhappy with the changes in their policy on monetizing videos. went to youtube and intended and opened fire. so even though it is fairly small as a community, it has seen its share of shootings. but at the same time it is a very active retail hub for people and a gathering place. you can see the sears there. there s also a lowe s nearby. target. i shop there sometimes. and growing up i shopped there. back in the day tanforan opened as a mall was this a teenage hangout for you? yes. reasonably priced stores. it opened in 1971. it s been refurbished. it has.
building. we ll be on scene here to treat anybody. but no additional people were treat order located. when they signed the releases they didn t need to be transplanted do you have any sense of what their injuries were? i don t at this point. sorry to say. can you describe what it looked like when you a i arrived on the scene? were people running from the mall at that point. there were people exiting the mall. i was here very quickly. i was in the area. and there were people outside of the mall. normally a very large police presence and like i said we ve done recent training here in san bruno and our officers, firefighters work closely with the police officers. and their immediate concern was lets get the rescue group task force together and get the victims out. very happy with. as the chief said we re a small department. we have to rely on the other departments and neighbors and they all participated in this response. what is that recent active
shooter, shooter, shooter, and people started running. a couple of people apparently were injured in that panic to get out of harm s way. two people were shot. still no suspects in custody but police are fairly confident at this point that handguns were used. despite an initial report someone may have thought they saw a rifle or something. they think handguns were used. and two suspects still on the loose no, one arrest at this point. two people who were apparently targeting each other they believe. we do have some video. we re going to show this with our viewers right now. from inside the mall. this is rather dramatic. of one of the shooting victims after he was hit down on the ground. we don t have that video cell phone video someone took. hearing the gunshots, seeing the people running and then going to help that person that was down. on that point, kristen, we should point out we ve had two or three different people describeougunshots. pop, pop, pop, pop. so perhaps we ll
and it was definitely a scary experience. reporter: i don t know if you can hear us right now. this siren just started going off behind us. paula works inside of barnes & nobles inside the mall and ushered a lot of people to safety and they all hid inside of her store. they we they were hiding inside the store in barnes & noble in the dark. tell us about the people running towards. well at first. gives you sense what s happening out there right now. obviously police vehicles are still with their sirens coming. still a lot of heavily armed officers. i know you can t hear the interview very well but gives a sense how the threat is still very real in the area around tanforan mall right now. let s go down to abc7 news