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Police believe killer Joel Cauchi was 'targeting women' after fatally stabbing six people in a horror rampage at Westfield Bondi Junction. … The 40-year-old's motives have yet to be confirmed, but a police source claims investigators believe Cauchi was 'definitely targeting women'. The source explained police had viewed extensive footage of Cauchi's movements throughout the shopping centre and observed him selecting his victims. 'I don't think there's any other way to look at it,' the source told the Daily Telegraph. 'You can see on the footage he walks past other people. He just keeps moving past them and then attacks...

A heroic police officer fatally shot a knife-wielding maniac who killed five people and stabbed several others — including a small child — inside a popular Sydney mall Saturday afternoon. Authorities received calls around 3:30 p.m. local time that a knife-wielding man was attacking people at Westfield Bondi Junction, NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke said during a press conference. Footage obtained by 9News Sydney showed the suspect, wearing a gold and green rugby jersey and shorts, brandishing a long knife and approaching several horrified shoppers. Hundreds of people were captured running for the mall’s exits during the stabbing spree....

Two people have died and seven were injured in a shooting early Saturday at an outdoor mall in Doral, Fla., local authorities said. “The preliminary information that we do have from investigators is that there was some type of a dispute or altercation amongst patrons at a local facility within this commercial establishment,” Detective Alvaro Zabaleta of the Miami-Dade Police Department said in a press conference, referring to the late-night shooting that occurred at a club around 3:30 a.m. at the CityPlace Doral mall.

At least seven children between the ages of 12 and 17 were wounded in a mass shooting in busy downtown Indianapolis late Saturday night. Officers were on patrol just after 11 p.m. when they heard gunshots near the Circle Centre Mall, a shopping plaza downtown, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department told Fox 59. After rushing to the area of West Maryland Street, officers located a “large group of juveniles,” including six with gunshot wounds, Police Deputy Chief Tanya Terry said during a Sunday morning news conference, according to CNN.

It Begins… Entire NYC Mall Closes Over Theft

The company that runs the Fulton Center mall told the MTA last month it wants out of its lease because of crime and homelessness issues. Westfield signed a 20-year lease with the MTA, but wants to exit operations at Fulton Center more than 10 years before the end of the deal, according to a lawsuit the New York City Transit Authority filed days after receiving the news from the mall operator. The Fulton Center shopping complex operates above a transit hub that services eight subway lines, and is the busiest subway complex in Lower Manhattan, according to the MTA. The...

The San Francisco Center, once a thriving mall home to the largest Nordstrom in America, is a shell of its former self after a string of high-profile departures.. Staff and shoppers in the mall, where five more stores closed in January .. crime and falling foot traffic is ruining the palatial building.. The mall lost $1 billion in value last year ... The mall's cavernous, marble-floored atrium is eerily quiet. There's not a single shopper in sight and a litany of abandoned stores lay mostly empty, but for a few leftover cardboard boxes or fading signs which serve as a...

Sophia Simpson, 10, is still recovering after an adult woman randomly slammed her head into a cookie display at Somerset Mall in Troy. The incident took place last Friday as Sophia waited in line for a cookie from Mrs. Fields at the mall, according to police. She was there with a group of friends and one of their dads. "She took her hand in the back of my neck and slammed it into the glass," Sophia said. "The car ride back, oh my gosh, it was terrible. I was so dizzy. I was actually really tired too." The attacker is...

Horrifying videos have surfaced of a gang of at least seven men sexually abusing toddlers inside the restroom of a Texas mall, cops say. Arthur Hector Fernandez, 29, a kiosk worker at the Galleria mall in Houston, is charged with assaulting the toddlers and then posting the videos online. Two friends of Fernandez sometimes left their children, two 2-year-olds, in his care while they worked at the mall, according to police. The FBI says they launched a probe last month after the abuse videos posted on a private online forum were shared by by the Australian Centre to Counter Child...

The Miami Mall story dropped off in a hurry, didn’t it? Do you find it odd that seemingly hundreds of officers showed up to tend to juveniles fighting with “sticks”?

Shuttered stores at Schuylkill Mall in Pennsylvania in 2017. By the 1980s, the mall had become the center of American social life and accounted for the bulk of all retail sales. But a shrinking middle class, the rise of online shopping, and the fact that there were simply too many malls contributed to the decline of the American mall.

Pro-Palestinian protesters demanding a cease-fire in Gaza flooded Westfield Valley Fair mall in Santa Clara on Black Friday.

Once-bustling American malls are going bust as shoppers flock to online retailers instead of sprawling, brick-and-mortar locations. Ten years from now, there will be approximately 150 malls left in the US, Nick Egelanian, president of retail consulting firm SiteWorks, told The Wall Street Journal. That's down from around 2,500 locations in the 1980s and 700 today, Egelanian said.

The American Dream Mall, New Jersey’s behemoth shopping destination located in the Meadowlands, saw its losses quadruple in 2022 to $245 million as it struggled to attract retail tenants amid sagging customer traffic and expenses soared amid a heavy debt load, according to recent filings. In the years since its opening just five months before the pandemic struck in 2020, the 3.5 million-square-foot mall — which is home to an indoor ski slope, the Nickelodeon Universe Theme Park, and a whopping 450-plus stores — hasn’t caught a break. Aside from coronavirus-driven shutdowns and construction delays, the mall has been slammed...

his is the terrifying moment a young boy was attacked by a huge swarm of bullies at a mall in California before a Good Samaritan jumped in and saved him. There was a large brawl at Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance on Sunday night and Antonio Munoz was being targeted by the gang. The incident was caught on video and the group of teenagers are seen chasing the victim through the mall before knocking him to the ground and pummeling him. Maurice Hardy witnessed the attack and decided to intervene, pushing the teens off and shouting at them to...

DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. — After a movie day event at the Arbor Place Mall in Douglasville went awry last year, the city’s police chief is warning parents to be on guard and tell their children “no” before the next one. An all-day $4 movie day will be held by Regal Cinemas on Sunday. Last year’s $3 movie day turned into a day of “several fights and much chaos,” where police and sheriff’s deputies had to intervene. Police Chief Dr. Gary Sparks put out a release to the community Friday morning urging parents to stay at the mall and keep their kids...

Police have announced the first arrest in the recent 'flash mob' robbery at a Los Angeles area mall where 30 thieves made off with $400,000 in YSL merchandise. Ivan Isaac Ramirez, 23, was apprehended Thursday for his alleged involvement in the massive theft of a YSL store at the Glendale Americana at Brand. Another suspect, Brianna Jimenez, 21, is still at large and is currently being sought by police. Her smirking photo was released by cops over the weekend. No other suspects' names have been released or arrests have been made. Videos posted online from the August 8 robbery showed...

A group of “up to 30” teens poured into a Nordstrom’s store in Topanga, Calif., in a “smash and grab” looting that went off with military precision. Note the eerie silence. These aren’t young people on a lark looting a store for fun or because “raaaaaacism.” It’s certainly not some last minute social media happening. This is an organized gang of thieves carrying out a well-planned criminal operation. That’s not the only outrageous act of anarchy that happened in California last week. A flash mob comprised of dozens of thieves hit the Yves Saint Laurent at The Americana at Brand...

Mob of 30 robbers loots Nordstrom in Los Angeles, California 'Flash mob' ransacks Topanga Mall Nordstrom A group of between 20—50 people looted a Nordstrom at the Topanga Mall. It's the second 'flash mob' robbery in LA County this week, but police don't know if they're connected. https://www.foxla.com/video/1263169.amp

Horrifying footage shows the moment up to 50 looters ransacked a luxury accessories concession at a Los Angeles Nordstrom store. The footage shows men in dark hoodies and face masks ransacking the department store at Westfield Topanga Mall, even resorting to attacking security guards with bear spray. Videos have rapidly circulated on social media, depicting the mob shattering display cases and grabbing high-end designer accessories, some still affixed with electronic security tags.