The staff at the store eventually locked the doors and asked people to go into a back room, he said. Florida Memory Project. If you have any information on this shooting or the gunmans whereabouts, call Aventura Police or Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS. They were trying to hide anywhere they could because no one knew what was going on, said Lockart, who works in real estate. They were on top of it, Lockart said. This is the second false shooting scare in Orlando that has prompted crowds to run within weeks. News dies after accidental shooting outside Sawgrass Mills Garrett was unarmed. During the second murder, Gilmore shot himself in the hand. Dennis Romero is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital. Police and first responders were running through a nearby hallway within minutes. Utah news from KSLTV.com Multiple people injured in Florida mall shooting - NBC News The sheriffs office said The judge overseeing the prosecution of a Florida strip mall owner accused of shooting and killing a man who urinated on his building ruled against the defense in a pre-trial hearing on Wednesday. As many as five people were injured Saturday when gunfire broke out at the Aventura Mall near Miami, authorities said. Between October 2, 1974 and June 28, 1975, the serial killer kidnapped and killed at least four young women in Provo, Salt Lake City and Bountiful. Subscribe today. A shooter is still at large after opening fire inside a busy Aventura Mall. Live aerial television news footage showed people scattering outside the Aventura Mall after the initial reports And based on the video evidence that I now know frame by frame, no reasonable person would have viewed Garrett Hughes actions as a threat, much less a deadly threat requiring deadly force. 1:23. Aventura Mall bills itself on its online site as a premier shopping destination in the Miami area and South Florida. Police said the three wounded were taken to hospitals but their injuries were not life-threatening. 1:23. "NO shots fired at Florida Mall," the sheriff's office said in a statement via Twitter at 4:30 p.m. Saturday. It was a point-blank shooting. MIAMI (AP) A shooting at a South Florida shopping mall that was sparked by a fight between two groups of people sent panicked shoppers fleeing and left three persons injured Saturday afternoon, police and witnesses said. Live aerial television news footage showed people scattering outside the Aventura Mall after the initial reports of gunfire.