now. and sharon, this was all caught on camera. reporter: that s right. i spoke with a police officer late this evening and he described the chaotic scene that happened right inside here at this shopping center. many people posted it on social media. police say about 2 dozen people started fighting in the food court at about 6:30 tonight. about 30 officers responded to the scene, running up the escalators and trying to keep innocent shoppers safe. police say some of the people involved tried to run from officers. and one video even showed a chair being thrown at officers. the violence spread to different levels of the shopping center. it did compicate matters, and that s why we had to try and stop the situation as soon as possible. and that s you see us moving to multiple levels in order to stop and detain these individuals that were involved in this incident. reporter: police say several people were detained for questioning. one person ended up being arrested. one offi
shouted god is a great in arabic as he was arrested but the police chief doesn t think it was a terrorist attack. no the suspect is charged with four counts of murder including a kill from last week and two counts after tempted murder. more now from fresno police chief. a total of 16 rounds were fired according to our gunshot detection system and all of those occur in approximately a minute to minute and half. as a result we know we had three people shot and killed and one person shot at in less than a two minute time frame in the city of fresno. abc 7 news reporter laura anthony is in fresno with more on what happend. we re getting results of multiple gunshots. reporter: the shooting started near downtown fresno just before 11:00 a.m. when police say the suspect shot and killed a man sitting on the passenger side of pg&e truck. witnesses say the suspect reloaded a large handgun and shot two more people including at least one near catholic charities, all of the vi