in the food court, and none of my family members and friends and people that i love. other people that were in the food court, i m just glad that they weren t there. and hope that not too many people i hope that nobody was injured severely. but, you know, sad to say i have heard that there was wounded. all right. well, thanks, tyler. a rough day for just trying to apply to a job. he is a college student, getting into being a fitness instructor. so he is still looking for a job there at sears and hopes that they will come back and open up. i m sure they will pretty soon. you imagine you re in there shopping and all of the sudden you re being herded with 30 other people into an area that is secure, and nobody is really quite sure what is going on? there are a lot of dramatic stories that are going to unfold of what happened here earlier this afternoon. back to you guys. definitely. i think we re just getting started with those. thank you, pat. we do want to let you know that odot h
but still very scary, and a lot of people still very shooken up out here as they re starting to trickle their way out from this mall. back to you. abby, most people seem to be handling it pretty well. but you know there is going to be repercussions in the days ahead. you know, there is definitely going to be some trauma involved in this. it s not just the people that were injured physically, but this would just scare the daylights out of you. no kidding. and there is no question about that. there is going to be a need for some after care. absolutely. for the people who saw this and were so close to those who were injured and running for their lives themselves. pat dooris has also been reporting from clackamas town center this afternoon. and pat, did you just talk to someone as well who was inside the mall? reporter: yes, i did. it was the middle of the afternoon when all this went down there. were a lot of people inside the mall. i have tyler petterson who was inside applying
officials say the gunman has been, quote, neutralized. we re continuing to monitor this story and bring you the latest from our affiliate kgw. let s listen in. she ran. right. he had just run into her at the mall. and he had left. and then heard about the shooting. and that s when he texted her, and she was in hiding in a storeroom with about 20 other people. and she could hear the shooter still walking around at the time. that was a former law enforcement dax mcmillan who gave us that information. we certainly hope that she and so many others are all right tonight. it gives you that kind of story gives you chills, it really does. just the unbelievable fear that must have been going through the people who are in the mall. we also talked to a woman who was there with her how old did she say her child was? 6-month-old son. oh, my gosh. she picked up that baby, and she said she ran like hell. right. away from the sound of the gunfire. and she just could hear mu
girls who worked at i believe it was the orange julius, one of the places where you can get smoothies and what not. i think they were a floor below this shooting if i m correct. they said when they heard what turned out to be gunfire, they just thought it was something happening upstairs, something dropped to the ground a couple of times, something like that. 10 a lot of people in this mall, they weren t directly inside that food court or inside macy s seeing this gunfire, hearing this gunfire that. may not know what they heard, what they saw. right, exactly. lots of people were still stuck inside the mall. they re trying to get them out now and speak with them before they re allowed to go home. pat dooris is standing by with an eyewitness. pat? reporter: well, that s right. as folks are starting to come out, we re starting to hear some of what it was like inside there. i have tyler i m sorry, it looks like we just lost our live connection with pat.