Black Lives Matter Supporter Shot Dead After Tweeting “Wack A Cracker”

Police arrived on the scene shortly after the incident occurred, locking down the 1.1 million square foot enclosed regional shopping center in an effort to find the shooter.

After the gunshots, an automatic gate came down and blocked Locker Room patrons from leaving the store for 30 minutes or more.

In the same store, Lisa Sawyer Phillips, 46, and her oldest son, 26, were looking for Carolina Panthers T-shirts when they heard the shots. Customers ran to the back of the store, where workers escorted them through a back door that leads to a hallway, Phillips said.

They waited there for a half-hour before they were able to evacuate the mall, she said.

“That was probably the scariest part, not knowing how many people were actually shooting,” Phillips said.

“Usually, I’m calm and collected and can handle things,” she said. But as the sound of gunshots hit the air, “I really broke down.”

At the AMC Northlake movie theater, about 100 people who had just finished watching a 12:45 p.m. screening of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” were surprised when an employee came in and announced there had been a shooting and that the mall was on lockdown.

Out in the mall, hundreds of shoppers pushed and shoved to leave the area.

Earlier, Medic said one person has a leg injury after an incident at the mall. Two other people were being treated, one who had gone into labor and another patient who had an asthma attack, the agency tweeted.

Caryl Santos, a 20-year-old sophomore at East Carolina University, said she was standing in the checkout line at Belk when suddenly people began running toward the exit. “I had no idea what to do so I grabbed my mom, dropped my stuff and ran out of the store,” she said.

The scene was chaotic, she said: People ran to their cars. Some hid behind Dumpsters.

Justin Biddle, 19, and his girlfriend Chyna Williams, 17, were at the mall for some last-minute shopping for her mother. They had gotten off the escalator in Macy’s and headed for Victoria’s Secret when dozens of shoppers – “too many to count,” Chyna said – thundered toward them.

There has only been one other shooting at the Northlake mall since it was built in 2005. In 2012 a man was arrested and charge in connection with that incident. In 2009, Northlake launched a curfew requiring adult supervision for anyone under the age of 18 on Fridays and Saturdays after 5 p.m.

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