Teen arrested after bringing loaded gun in his fanny pack into N.J. mall, cops say
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A teenager from Lodi was arrested Saturday after police said he brought a gun into Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus.NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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A Bergen County teenager was arrested over the weekend after police say he carried a loaded semiautomatic handgun into Westfield Garden State Plaza.
The 17-year-old, who is from Lodi, was arrested about 8 p.m. Saturday after security officers “were made aware of a person with a handgun” inside the mall, which is off Route 17 in Paramus, according to police.
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progressed through the night was able to locate the victim in a back room with self-inflicting gunshot wounds. at this point we are still doing a secondary search on the stories. many stores have lockdown procedures and they have locked themselves in the story and we need to go store-by-store to get these people out of to get them out and let them know everything is safe here. that is an ongoing operation and will probably continue for the rest of the night and i d like to thank the burton county proper s officer and police and new jersey police and my surrounding local communities and all of the assistance that was required for this major undertaking this morning. was there a suicide note, sir? we want to bring you up-to-date what is going on here. this is basically a press conference held by authorities in new jersey. the police department and the prosecutor there. this after a shooting at the westfield garden state shopping mall. the only victim in this was the gunman himself