Gunman dead and 2 wounded -- including 12-year-old-girl -- in Alabama mall shooting
Source: CNN
By Joe Sutton and Madeline Holcombe, CNN
Updated 7:38 AM ET, Fri November 23, 2018
(CNN) - A Thanksgiving night shooting at Alabama's largest enclosed mall left a gunman dead and two people -- including a 12-year-old girl -- injured, authorities said, and sent terrified shoppers running for safety.
The incident at the Riverchase Galleria in the Birmingham suburb of Hoover started with a fight between an 18-year-old and the 21-year-old gunman, police said. The confrontation occurred in the mall shortly before 10 p.m. (11 p.m. ET), near the Footaction and JC Penney stores.
Police do not know how the confrontation began, but "we do not believe at this point the 18-year-old was armed," Hoover police Capt. Gregg Rector said.
The gunman opened fire, shooting the teen twice in the torso, according to police.
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