by Two people were injured in a shooting at an Arkansas mall on Black Friday busiest shopping days of the year, authorities said.
Little Rock police called the shooting, which occurred at Park Plaza at 1:44 p.m. local time, in a news release an isolated incident and not an active shooter situation. Police said it allegedly started as a “disturbance between two individuals, which escalated into gunfire.”
Both victims are expected to make a full recovery, police said. No arrests were immediately announced.
Little Rock Police Chief Heath Helton initially said at an afternoon news conference that responding officers found one injured person at the scene and two others later arrived at a hospital. However, police later clarified that only one victim was taken to an area hospital in a private vehicle, and not two.
The precise circumstances of the shooting were unclear. Troy Daniell, manager of Journey’s Kidz shoe store, told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that he was at work when he heard the gunshots “and got all the customers that were in my store out of there. I put them all in the back of the store.” When I heard the first (shot), I thought maybe something had fallen, but then I heard a few more shots and immediately understood what was going on.
In one statementMayor Frank Scott Jr. of Little Rock said that “the careless, senseless and criminal actions of two individuals today endangered the lives and safety of residents and visitors. We pray for the victims of this incident and hope they make a full recovery.”
