Posted on 02/13/2007 4:41:14 AM PST by devane617
A historic mall's winding hallways became a shooting gallery for a gunman in a trench coat who fired a shotgun randomly at customers, slaying five before being killed by police, authorities and witnesses said. For hours after Monday evening's rampage at the Trolley Square shopping mall, police searched stores for scared, shocked shoppers and employees who were hunkered down awaiting a safe escort. Marie Smith, 23, a Bath & Body Works manager, saw the gunman through the store window. She watched as he raised his gun and fired at a young woman approaching him from behind. "His expression stayed totally calm. He didn't seem upset, or like he was on a rampage,"
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It is a shame that a gunman can go through a mall shooting people and most of the people don't shoot back.
It's gonna be an "Anti-Gun Tuesday"
As he also said..."If you look African American, you are treated like an African American".. IF a "Majority" candidate said the same thing, he'd* be marginalized and "campaign over".
*Hillary would have been given an MSM free pass or an opportunity to flip flop, therefor I did not put s/he'd
Sorry, posted to wrong thread
Shotguns must be outlawed to save the children!
Probably had a lot of practice playing one of those shooting video games.
A "historic" mall?!!
Bad news that this kid chose political season to go on his stupid rampage. The pols will now demagogue this story, but not pay any attention to the recent stories about legal gun owners protecting their homes and property.
Outlawing guns would not have prevented this whack job from killing innocents.
Did ANYONE shoot back?
Much of Salt Lake City is as liberal and gun-shunning as San Francisco.
That's why I don't give a rat's red ass about no carry policies at malls. They are just another "victim disarmament" policy.
This may have been the reason for some of the confusion surrounding this story late last night -- when there was some speculation that more than one gunman was involved.
Moslem Terrorist ?
According to the police spokesman I just saw on Fox news, the gunman's name was "Suleiman". Another ROP attack that will be played as "random".
Don't scare the children /sarc
Was wondering why officials appear to be dancing around the question for name, etc.. Loks like there is more to the story than I imagined.
One of his victime was Kristen Hinkley. Any relation to the leader of the Mormon Church whick is named Hinckley also?
I just discovered over at KABA (Keep and Bear Arms) that the mall in question has posted NO GUNS ALLOWED signs (Garrett blog).
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