(12-28-2014 11:28 AM)ClairtonPanther Wrote: Wassup w/ this rash of brawls this weekend.
Here's the brawl at Monroeville Mall in the Pittsburgh area
A lot worse than just a brawl at the same Mall today.
3 hit by gunfire at Pittsburgh-area mall
Quote:Three people were wounded — two critically — when gunfire broke out Saturday at Monroeville Mall around 7:35 p.m. The mall was evacuated, store by store, and placed on lockdown while police scoured the complex in a fruitless search for the shooter.
The shootings took place inside the ground floor of Macy’s. “It was a targeted shooting,” said Monroeville Police Chief Doug Cole at a news conference Saturday night. “We have many leads and we are following them up.” He said one gun was involved and that probably two shots were fired.
Two of the victims, both males, ages 20 and 60, were in critical condition at Forbes Hospital in Monroeville. The third victim, a 47-year-old woman, was at the hospital with non-life-threatening wounds.
The 20-year-old was the target of the shooter; the second man and the woman were bystanders in Macy’s, Chief Cole said.
No one had been taken into custody, but police said they had a detailed description of a male suspect. They planned to review security camera images in the “hope they’ll be a big help” in tracking down the shooter, said Lt. Andrew Schurman, head of the Allegheny County police homicide unit.
Jesse Miller, a spokesman at Forbes Hospital, said the trauma unit there was on lockdown while the suspect was at large.
A hostess at Winghart’s, a restaurant beside Macy’s, said that a man later identified as the 60-year-old’s brother, came rushing into the bar, saying that his brother had been shot inside Macy’s. The man said his brother had been shot in the knee and thigh.
The incident brought a heavy police response, including state police, Allegheny County sheriff’s deputies and about a dozen other police departments from around the region. Police had completed a search of the entire mall by about 9 p.m. and heavily armed officers were seen leaving the mall shortly later.
Lt. Schurman described the shooter as a light-skinned black male in his late teens, between 5 feet 7 inches and 5 feet 9 inches tall, wearing dark clothing with writing on his shirt.
The shooting is the third incident at Monroeville Mall within the past two months. A brawl broke out Dec. 26 at the mall when a mob of more than 1,000 teens and young adults swarmed the shopping center and multiple fights broke out. The incident reportedly was spurred by social media.
Monroeville Mall management deemed the chaos “an isolated incident,” but decided in the ensuing days to heighten mall security, with an increase in the number of off-duty police officers.
(02-08-2015 09:29 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote: Jeez, that mall has to do a no teenager policy unless accompanied by a parent of guardian or something like that.
That mall needs to put up a sign saying guns aren't allowed inside. That will finally stop this.
(12-28-2014 11:28 AM)ClairtonPanther Wrote: Wassup w/ this rash of brawls this weekend.
Here's the brawl at Monroeville Mall in the Pittsburgh area
There have also been some in the Chicago area over the last few months. They seem to be implementing a no person under 18 without an adult(unless they work there but need ID to prove it).
(02-08-2015 09:29 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote: Jeez, that mall has to do a no teenager policy unless accompanied by a parent of guardian or something like that.
(02-08-2015 09:29 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote: Jeez, that mall has to do a no teenager policy unless accompanied by a parent of guardian or something like that.
That mall needs to put up a sign saying guns aren't allowed inside. That will finally stop this.
(02-08-2015 09:49 AM)Crebman Wrote: Arrested the Punk - 17 years old. Tarod Thornhill.
And a law that says it's illegal for someone under 18 to possess a handgun. Maybe an anti-murder/attempted murder law while we're at it.
That way, if somebody breaks one, there's like, 2 or 3 more there to stop them.
(02-08-2015 09:49 AM)Crebman Wrote: Arrested the Punk - 17 years old. Tarod Thornhill.
"Tarod" Who would've guessed?
Maybe if Parents would start to give Their kids a normal name some of this aggravated violence would subside. Stupid names lead to Stupid people growing up dissing others.
(02-08-2015 09:29 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote: Jeez, that mall has to do a no teenager policy unless accompanied by a parent of guardian or something like that.
That article covers some of it but I read another article about this and the DA sounded pissed because evidently he had suggested a security policy and even had the mall management meet with security consultants months ago because of problems there and the mall ignored all the measures suggested.
A friend of mine works for a local Sheriff's Dept that was having issues in one of their malls. They met with the mall management and made a bunch of suggestions but they were told that the corporate office wouldn't allow them to do most of them because increasing security was racist. Bet you a dollar that was the case here.
(02-08-2015 09:49 AM)Crebman Wrote: Arrested the Punk - 17 years old. Tarod Thornhill.
"Tarod" Who would've guessed?
Maybe if Parents would start to give Their kids a normal name some of this aggravated violence would subside. Stupid names lead to Stupid people growing up dissing others.
The teen had spent time in the juvenile justice system and, according to court documents, became the subject of some custody cases when his parents were incarcerated. A Facebook account in his name makes references to an electronic monitoring bracelet and a juvenile supervision program. It also shows a photo of a teen holding wads of cash.
Tarod arrived at the mall wearing a black hoodie with white lettering outlined in a white box, black pants and gray Nike sneakers.
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