Police say one person died and another person sustained minor injuries in a shooting at a mall in northern Wisconsin
GRAND CHUTE, Delete. – A suspect left one person dead and another with minor injuries on Sunday before fleeing a shooting scene at a mall in northern Wisconsin, police said.
Police were called to Fox River Mall in Grand Chute, a suburb of Appleton, on Sunday at about 3:30 p.m. The unidentified shooter stayed loose on Sunday evening, authorities said.
Grand Chute Police Officer Travis Waas has not identified either victim.
Wass said the shooter left the mall before the officers arrived. Police said they interviewed witnesses and followed directions. Not a single motif was immediately released.
Photographs of the scene showed officers, some in tactical gear, performing outside the mall and what appeared to be customers walking out with their hands in the air.
Haylie Mirr, who works at a mall restaurant called Box Lunch, said she knew nothing about the shooting, but said, “People were just starting to run. We just locked the doors and we had four customers in the store, we took them to our back room. “
They were still waiting for the all-clear almost three hours later.
It was the second recent shooting in a Wisconsin mall. In November, eight people were injured in a shooting after a confrontation in a mall in Wauwatosa, suburban Milwaukee. A 15-year-old boy was arrested and charged.
Grand Chute is a town of about 22,000 residents on the outskirts of Appleton, about 100 miles north of Milwaukee.