that these separate events are actually connected. but what we do know is this caused chaos and mass evacuations in malls like this one behind me here in new york. take a listen. >> post-christmas mayhem striking malls all across the country. in this new jersey mall, pandemonium when a person shouted gun in response to a chair being slammed after a fight. >> everybody was running. >> 5,000 shoppers trying to escape what they believed was a life-threatening ordeal. abandoning meals in the food court. in ohio, police responded to reports of shots fired at beachwood place mall. >> we had sort of stampede through saks. >> officers used pepper spray to disperse a large crowd fighting, later confirming there were no gunshots. a juvenile taken into custody for assaulting a police officer. on monday, disturbances in more