Thursday, December 13, 2012

Deaths, injuries in Oregon mall shooting

By Isolde Raftery, NBC News

Updated at 7:52 p.m. ET: A shooting at a mall in Portland, Ore., on Tuesday afternoon left multiple dead and wounded, according to Clackamas County Lt. James Rhodes. There was no confirmation of how many people were killed or hurt.?

The Oregonian newspaper said that one of its sports columnists was in the mall and reported that dozens of shots?were fired in the food court near the Macy's at the Clackamas Town Center around 3:20 p.m.

KGW.com reported that the shooter was wearing a hockey mask, but it did not cite a source for the information.


A woman who answered the phone at Chipotle in the mall told NBC News that someone ran in and yelled, ?It?s a shooting, it?s a shooting.?

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She said employees shut the restaurant doors. She said the mall is crawling with police.

Witness Amber Tate told KATU that she was standing in the parking lot when she spotted a man wearing a camouflage shirt and what looked like a bulletproof vest.

Tate said he looked like a teenager.

The mall entrances have been blocked off, according to the Oregonian.

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