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Posted on 10/18/2021 10:47:32 AM PDT by lightman
A struggle over a gun preceded multiple people sustaining gunshot wounds inside Park City Center mall in Lancaster County, Lancaster police said on Monday.
Police believe six shots were fired — including some fired by an armed bystander who emerged from a nearby store and intervened.
A female walking by with her family and unconnected with the dispute was among those shot, police said.
The gunfire took place on Sunday afternoon inside the section of the mall occupied by JC Penney
Lancaster police on Monday morning said a male 16-year-old city resident has been arrested and is awaiting charges.
Police said the 16-year-old, whose name wasn’t given, got in a fight with an acquaintance and pulled out a handgun.
Police said others joined the fight, with the 16-year-old firing shots and hitting one of the people who joined the fight.
Police said an armed bystander who was in another store and wasn’t involved in the fight heard the shots and then shot one of the people struggling over the gun -- apparently the 16-year-old who initiated the shooting. Police said the 16-year-old was hospitalized for a non-life-threatening gunshot injury.
Police said the armed bystander waited for police to arrive and turned over his weapon. Police said the county district attorney will decide if the bystanders’ actions were legal and justified.
Police said two other males who struggled over the gun were shot and sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
Police said the female who was shot while walking through the mall had non-life-threatening injuries.
Police said two of the people who were shot have been released from the hospital, and no one involved in the incident had life-threatening injuries.
Police said they are piecing together “video footage from many different sources” to understand exactly what took place.
They are asking anyone with information to call Lancaster police at 717-735-3301.
The mall reopened at regular time on Monday morning.
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According to Lancaster Online the bystander has a proper RTCC permit.
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Lancaster county PA?
I’m guessing the Amish.
5.56mm
Lancaster police on Monday morning said a male 16-year-old city resident has been arrested... the 16-year-old, whose name wasn’t given, got in a fight with an acquaintance and pulled out a handgun. Police said others joined the fight, with the 16-year-old firing shots and hitting one of the people who joined the fight.
They should make it illegal for a 16 year old to have a handgun.
That will fix it. 😏
Good guy with a gun did better than the cops likely could!
He managed to ID and shoot the right guy, in the middle of a scrum.
I gotta wonder what the situation was for him; I couldn’t imagine taking a shot in a mall - no backstops, too many innocent bystanders. He was good, lucky or both! And brave!
My wife and I haven’t been mugged, shot at or assaulted in the over 12 years+ in which, we haven’t been in/near a mall.
No mugging by our mail people, Amazon people, UPS/Fed Ex, and other home delivery people.
The only safe person in an anti-Constitutional ‘Gun Free Zone’ is the criminal with a firearm.
If the bystander that intervened is unlucky enough to be born White, he will be the only one charged...with a hate crime.
“No mugging by our mail people, Amazon people, UPS/Fed Ex, and other home delivery people.”
Yeah, but how do your porch decorations fare?
https://twitter.com/ChefGruel/status/1449842454170013700
It will depend on whether the county district attorney is a raging leftist or a Second Amendment advocate as to whether the armed bystander is thrown into jail without parole facing prosecutorial abuse.
The lack of videos on the internet from bystanders at the mall is peculiar.
I thought the same thing.
Lancaster is Amish country.
Well, he did the right thing, sounds like.
So far re formerly live decorations, most have been eaten by the local deer, tree foxes and squirrels.
We keep the edible ones by the bushes by our driveway
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