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Update: Hot Air reader tr4a says local TV is reporting that police have the rifle, but not the suspect. They do have more pictures of the shooter now:

Active shooter at large

Four people were killed in a shooting at a mall in Burlington, Washington, a spokesman for the Washington state patrol tweeted. Police are searching for at least one shooter, Sgt. Mark Francis said. Police are sweeping stores in the mall. http://fox59.com/2016/09/23/police-four-dead-at-shooting-at-washington-mall-shooter-at-large/

(CNN)Four people were killed in a shooting at a mall in Burlington, Washington, on Friday night, a spokesman for the state patrol tweeted. Police are searching for at least one shooter, and are sweeping stores in the mall, Sgt. Mark Francis said. Burlington is about an hour north of Seattle.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The Charlottesville Fire Department is now investigating a reported explosion on the Downtown Mall. The local fire chief says there was no fire or smoke from the reported explosion near the Downtown Mall between 3rd street and Water street.

Police officers have responded to Crossroads Mall in St. Cloud for multiple stabbing victims. The police department says one suspect was taken into custody at Macy's. Investigators responded to the mall around 8:20 p.m. Saturday. The number of possible victims is not known at this time.

Snip: Several emergency crews are at the scene of an incident at Marlborough Mall Saturday afternoon. Reports suggest that an officer was attacked by a machete. There is no word yet on what led to the incident or how many people were involved. Calgary EMS spokesman Nate Pike says first responders were called to the Marlborough Mall in the city’s east end Saturday afternoon. Pike says a Calgary police officer was taken to Foothills Hospital in what is described as stable, non life threatening condition with soft-tissue injuries. He says a second patient was also taken to hospital in critical,...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Shoppers in Raleigh described chaos Saturday afternoon after at least one gunshot rang out in the crowded Crabtree Valley Mall. Hours after the report of the shots, police had yet to identify a shooter, find anyone with gunshot wounds or make any arrests. Elisabeth Hammond was in the food court when she heard shots nearby. "I'm a country girl, I know what gunfire sounds like," she said. "I felt it in my chest."... Read more at http://www.wral.com/police-gunshots-fired-in-crabtree-valley-mall-no-suspects-in-custody/15926525/#kxwj7F52Zp5zGktm.99

Raleigh, N.C. — Raleigh police were working to secure Crabtree Valley Mall Saturday afternoon after gunshots were fired inside. As of 3:20 p.m., police said no one was being allowed in or out of the mall. No suspects have been arrested, and police said they did not have reports of any injurie

Breaking on Fox. "Massive" crime scene.

On May 10 a good guy with a gun shot a knife-wielding man who allegedly stabbed four people in a Massachusetts mall. BNO News reports the incident occurred at the Silver City Galleria in Taunton, Massachusetts around 6:30 p.m. The suspect allegedly drove his car into the mall–literally drove in–then got out and began stabbing mall goers. They report four people were stabbed before the knife-wielding man “was shot by an off-duty police officer.”

A local high school is honoring a man who was shot and killed by police inside Northlake Mall on Christmas Eve. Crossroads Charter High School on North Tryon Street dedicated its digital sign in memory of Daquan Westbrook.

**SNIP** "This was a premeditated assassination," Harper Woods Deputy Police Chief Ted Stager said. Harper Woods Police say the teens have been associated with violence in Detroit before and it wasn't hard to identify the man they say pulled the trigger and they say they even left a digital trail. "We had the shooter identified probably within a few hours of the crime," Stager said "They're on Facebook, social media. bragging and showing off their level of violence."

LOUISVILLE, Ky. —Mall St. Matthews was supposed to close at 10 p.m. Saturday for holiday shoppers, but instead it closed more than hour before due to what some may describe as a riot. “We started heading towards the exit and we saw larger numbers of teenagers and they started kind of running and congregating in one area, and then all the police, all the security started running that direction and then we decided it's time to head the other direction," said Chuck Hibbs.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Mall of America was used as "a decoy" to start a protest that quickly moved to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and blocked a terminal on a busy holiday travel day, one organizer of the demonstration said. Access to one of two terminals was closed after more than 100 protesters gathered inside and blocked roads leading to the airport Wednesday, airport spokesman Patrick Hogan said. He said the protest caused some flight delays but no cancellations. Protesters hoping to draw attention to the police shooting last month of a black man in Minneapolis had described in advance...

LANCASTER, Pa. (WHTM) – Charges have been filed against five people, including three teens, in connection to a group of fights that escalated into a stabbing over the weekend at the Park City Mall. Police say the violence resulted in a 14-year-old girl’s face being slashed, a 20-year-old man cut in the chest, and a 15-year-old girl’s wrist split.

Police say several juveniles and young adults will be charged in connection with melees that left two stabbed at Lancaster's Park City Center shopping mall over the weekend. In a release provided to Pennlive Monday, Lancaster police say officers responded to the mall at 7:04 p.m. Saturday, for reports of a "fight / stabbing." Officers reportedly discovered that as many as three fights had taken place there that evening, all believed to have involved two groups of people.

Another test. Another form of terror — “Preston shopping centre bomb alert: Police say device was planted deliberately to endanger life,” British Army News, December 17, 2015 (thanks to Armaros): Preston’s Fishergate Shopping Centre remains closed as bomb disposal experts examine device Police have confirmed a device that went off at a shopping centre in Preston was planted deliberately and was intended to endanger life. Army bomb disposal experts are on the scene after the “suspicious device” went off in bin. It caused no real damage and no injuries.

A "Christmas Flash Mob" is an organized group of singers who stage a surprise holiday performance at a public location. The looks on the shoppers' faces here is priceless! If you've never seen this five-minute clip, you owe it to yourself to take a peak. It is an amazing and uplifting celebration of the Christmas season.

A Long Island mall swapped Santa’s sleigh for something resembling a spaceship and nixed the Christmas tree because it didn’t want to “offend” anyone, irate shoppers told The Post. The Roosevelt Field Mall ditched its traditional holiday village and put Ol’ Saint Nick inside a winter-themed “glacier” instead. But some say the white and blue display looks more like something out of “Star Trek” than “Twas the Night Before Christmas.” “Santa comes along with a decorated tree; he doesn’t come with a spaceship,” Maria Lovdahl fumed.