South Carolina police officers responded to reviews of a shooting Saturday at a shopping shopping mall, the place an not known amount of people today were being wounded.

Officers from the Columbia Law enforcement Section responded to the capturing at the Columbiana Centre at 2:30 p.m. and confirmed shortly soon after that several wounded individuals were receiving medical attention. Law enforcement have arrested three suspects who have been unarmed, but understood each other, the division mentioned in a press briefing.

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“What we know is at least a few individuals ended up seen with firearms within the shopping mall and at minimum one man or woman fired a weapon,” CPD Chief William Holbrook mentioned in the briefing.

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A full of 12 persons were being wounded amid the capturing, with two critically hurt and two who were being not shot but were being hurt amid the stampede out of the browsing centre.

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CPD officers are earning certain the browsing heart has been “cleared,” with no more accidents documented. Shopping mall personnel who continue to be inside of the browsing centre have been questioned to continue being inside of till an officer escorts them out.

The Columbiana Centre will be shut until more notice, the searching center’s internet site read.

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A media briefing scheduled for 4 p.m. has not nonetheless started, as the CPD desires to confirm added information and facts just before briefing the general public, the department wrote on social media.

The police department has not responded to the Washington Examiner’s request for remark.