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NYE CHAOS Mall of America ‘shooting’ lockdown – Minnesota shoppers shelter-in-place on New Year’s Eve as cops hunt suspect
The Sun, USA ^ | 31 December 2021 | Christopher Eberhart

Posted on 12/31/2021 9:14:09 PM PST by blueplum

TWO people were hurt in a shooting at Minnesota's Mall of America on Friday evening, and police were searching for a gunman.

Bloomington police said that the scene was secured around 6pm, about an hour after a police officer heard a gunshot at the busy shopping center....

...The police department said in an update late Friday that the officer who heard the gunshot found a man who suffered a bullet wound to the leg.

He was taken to a local hospital while a second man, a bystander who was grazed by a bullet, was treated for minor injuries then released at the scene.

"At this time the shooting does not appear to be random," police said in the update.

"It is likely the victim and suspect are known to each other."...

(Excerpt) Read more at the-sun.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: banglist; belongsinchat; bloomington; chat; localnews; mallofamerica; mallshooting; minnesota; shooting

1 posted on 12/31/2021 9:14:09 PM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

95% of the time and no description and known each other.


2 posted on 12/31/2021 9:17:09 PM PST by Jonty30 (I love giving directions, because it is like me to tell people where to go and how to get there.)
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To: blueplum

Lutefisk will do that to people...


3 posted on 12/31/2021 9:21:56 PM PST by mylife (I don't know how we should fill out the accident report...should we clean up this blood?)
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To: blueplum

Isn’t there always chaos on New Year’s Eve?


4 posted on 12/31/2021 9:26:18 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: blueplum

They had to lock down a mall in Hobart, IN yesterday too because of gunfire


5 posted on 12/31/2021 9:29:50 PM PST by digger48
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To: blueplum

Minnesota shoppers?

Minnesotans as much as the patrons of the bar scene in Star Wars!


6 posted on 12/31/2021 9:31:08 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: blueplum

Renegade Amish?


7 posted on 12/31/2021 9:35:06 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: sheik yerbouty

Mall of Somalia


8 posted on 12/31/2021 9:40:07 PM PST by teevolt
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To: blueplum

So not mass mshooting.

Just careless targeted shooting.


9 posted on 12/31/2021 9:42:45 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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I wonder what the suspects look like? Any ideas?

10 posted on 12/31/2021 9:50:44 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: blueplum

This never happens in California! : )

Maybe just one time.....
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4025824/posts


11 posted on 12/31/2021 10:33:01 PM PST by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: Jonty30

gonna say black on black crime

media goes into lockdown mode and says nothing, so you know its true, thats what the sop is


12 posted on 12/31/2021 10:39:01 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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When I lived in Minniepopulus about 20 years ago there was strong resistance to the plan to extend light rail to the Mall from downtown.

Guess why.


13 posted on 01/01/2022 2:11:11 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (qd4)
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Bloomington police said that the scene was secured around 6pm, about an hour after a police officer heard a gunshot at the busy shopping center....

An hour? What's the point of locking things down the as t long after the fact? What are the odds that the shooter was still in the area?

14 posted on 01/01/2022 6:01:12 AM PST by jdege
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To: digger48; blueplum

When my LadyFriend and I go walking at the nearby York Galleria Mall, in inclement weather, I always CCW my Kimber “Eclipse Target II” 1911 .45cal ACP, with extra mags.


15 posted on 01/01/2022 7:36:21 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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16 posted on 01/01/2022 7:40:34 AM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: blueplum

Minnesota’s Mall of America
Locally known as the Mall of Africa.


17 posted on 01/01/2022 9:21:29 AM PST by Fireone (When they pry them from my cold, dead, unvaccinated hands.)
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