Moment shoppers flee for safety as gunfire rings out in Mall of America, leaving one dead

Footage captures the moment gunfire rings out at the Mall of America in Minnesota, seeing shoppers flee for safety.

A 19-year-old man was killed in the December 23 shooting that prompted the country’s largest mall to be put on lockdown.

Jovonta Patton was filming inside the Gucci store when a loud bang is heard echoing nearby, prompting shoppers and mall workers to run for cover.

In a press conference, Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said that prior to the shooting, it appeared there was a physical altercation between two groups, involving anywhere between five and nine people.

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