{"id":53323,"date":"2017-11-27T05:45:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T05:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=53323"},"modified":"2017-11-27T05:45:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T05:45:41","slug":"police-say-ny-mall-evacuated-gun-discharges-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/police-say-ny-mall-evacuated-gun-discharges-floor.html","title":{"rendered":"Police say NY mall evacuated after gun discharges into floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Police say NY mall evacuated after gun discharges into floor<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Police say NY mall evacuated after gun discharges into floor:- A crowded mall in New York&#8217;s Hudson Valley was evacuated Sunday after a man shot a gun into the floor, causing minor injuries to two bystanders, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">It wasn&#8217;t clear whether the gunfire shortly after 3 p.m. at the Galleria at Crystal Run in Middletown was accidental. Police were seeking the man with the gun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;At this time it appears that a male wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt and gray pants discharged one round from a handgun into the floor on the second level of the mall in front of the American Eagle store,&#8221; Chief Robert Hertman of the Wallkill Police Department said at a briefing outside the mall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Hertman said the two people were being treated for minor lacerations. He said it was unclear how they were injured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Video posted on social media showed armed police in tactical gear running down a corridor of the mall while shoppers ran in the other direction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Leighton Peterson was grabbing a pre-movie bite to eat in the mall&#8217;s food court around 3:20 when suddenly, he heard alarms, &#8220;and all of the employees were telling everybody to get to the exits and evacuate,&#8221; he told The Associated Press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">As people made orderly progress toward the exits, Peterson thought it might be a fire drill until he heard a worried-looking mall worker mention a shooting, he recalled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Outside, holiday shoppers lingered at first to see whether there might be an all-clear and reopening. But before long, &#8220;it became pretty clear that there was an actual situation happening, so then people started leaving en masse,&#8221; in a bumper-to-bumper stream out of the packed parking lot, said Peterson, 32, a video editor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The Galleria mall is about 70 miles north of midtown Manhattan. 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