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Indiana shopping mall gunman who killed 3 was shot dead by armed bystander [Video]

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:


  • At least three people are dead and others are injured following a shooting at a shopping mall in Indiana on Sunday.
  • A bystander who was legally carrying a gun, shot and killed the shooter at the Greenwood Park Mall.
  • The lone gunman entered the mall with a rifle and several magazines of ammunition and began firing in the food court, police said.

A lone gunman killed at least three people and wounded three more before being fatally shot by an armed bystander at an Indiana shopping mall, according to police.

The deadly shooting occurred at the Greenwood Park Mall south of Indianapolis at around 6 pm on Sunday, WTHR-TV reported.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police took to Twitter to inform the public that its officers were assisting Greenwood police with the shooting incident and that there were “multiple casualties,” but “no known ongoing threat.”

Mall shoppers said they heard around 20 gunshots coming from the food court.

Law enforcement units are making sure there are no other wounded individuals or anyone still sheltering in place. The motive behind the shooting is not yet known, according to police.

“If anyone was a witness to the shooting at Greenwood Park Mall, please go to the Greenwood Police Training Center,” Greenwood Police Department posted on Facebook.

One shop worker told WRTV that she was closing up when she heard gun shots.

“I was really, really scared. I wanted to close the gate but people kept running at me and I just kept letting people in and in and waiting but it was like really scary because I have three kids at home and I just wanted to get home,” she told the station.

“The real hero of the day is the citizen that was lawfully carrying a firearm in that food court and was able to stop the shooter almost as soon as he began,” Greenwood police chief Jim Ison told reporters at a press briefing.

Ison described the armed bystander as a 22-year-old man who legally carries a gun. The suspect was alone and had a rifle and several magazines of ammunition,

Police have yet to release the names of the victims, gunman, or bystander. Shoppers and mall employees fled at the sound of gunfire and hid.

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A series of deadly mass shootings happened since May — the Buffalo shooting at a New York grocery store, the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas and a Fourth of July parade shooting in Illinois. These recent shootings have renewed US debate over gun regulations.

Source: ABC News

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7 Comments

7 Comments

  1. merryinfidel

    July 18, 2022 at 7:34 am

    I’m very surprised the media allowed this story to see the light of day. I mean, a good guy with a gun, stopping a bad guy with a gun… How is that possible??

    • 2004done

      July 18, 2022 at 8:28 am

      (good guy w/ gun stops bad guy) It’s still early, remember Rittenhouse fabrications didn’t start until next day (Anti- Constitutionalists aren’t the quickest rats through a news-story maze, they keep running into the walls in panic).

    • Leslie

      July 18, 2022 at 4:58 pm

      I am also surprised that media is airing this (hopefully) as Democrat Liberals usually grab these situations to attack our gun rights.
      People be ready, another Civil war is building, our Republic needs defending!

  2. CharlieSeattle

    July 18, 2022 at 4:09 pm

    Did they arrest the hero and charge him with murder after locking him up in Riker’s Island Prison?

  3. CandygramForMongo

    July 19, 2022 at 7:12 am

    The only thing stopping a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun! Prayers to the victims!

    • Mike Tracy

      July 19, 2022 at 7:47 am

      Convincing liberals of the good gun stops a bad gun reality is too tough to process because liberals can’t grasp the fact that guns are easy to make. There will never be a world without guns. Liberal Democrats should all have to live in Mexico until they finally get it through their thick skulls that when guns are taken away from good people, only bad people have guns. The US will become dido to Mexico if liberal Democrat mentality isn’t exterminated. Soon!

  4. Whuffagowie

    July 19, 2022 at 1:47 pm

    Fortune favors the prepared.

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