PEORIA IL December 29 2020— A fight at Northwoods Mall the day after Christmas escalated to involve 200 juveniles and adults across both shopping levels and outside in the parking lot, causing Peoria police to deploy pepper balls and close down the mall. “Groups of kids got unruly and started to fight,” Peoria Police spokesman […]
METAIRIE, LA Dec 25 2020– On Wednesday afternoon, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office responded to a fist fight at Lakeside Shopping Center. Initial reports show the incident occurred inside the Dillard’s department store, after an altercation. A stir on social media originally reported that dozens of shoppers were seen running out of the mall because […]
HOBART Ind December 24 2020 — Southlake Mall removed an employee at its Santa photo set from the premises after she charged and screamed at a customer in what a witness described as a “meltdown.” A customer at the super-regional mall at U.S. 30 and Mississippi Street posted a widely shared video of the incident Sunday […]
Ontario County, N.Y. Dec 24 2020— Tuesday’s bright spot shines on Eastview mall security guard Scott Woodruff. You see, he knows how much Trey, who has autism, enjoys riding the carousel at the mall. He has done so four or five times a week for about 18 years. The ride has been shut down during […]
Douglasville GA Dec 21 2020 A fight between two women led to a shooting Saturday afternoon at Arbor Place mall, Douglasville police said. In a tweet posted shortly before 4 p.m., the department said it received calls about shots fired near the mall’s security entrance. Responding officers found no gunshot victims inside, however, and said there […]
SHELBY, N.C. Dec 20 2020 Shelby police said an employee at a store inside the Cleveland Mall chased a man before shooting and killing him Monday afternoon. Just before 1 p.m., a 911 caller told police that they saw a man with a gun chasing another man through the parking lot of the mall. Moments later, […]
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pennsylvania Dec 20 2020 A couple of bandits made off with more than $18,000 in merchandise from the King of Prussia Mall parking lot last month, according to police. Although parking lot thieves are nothing new, ones of this magnitude are, and the high-end heist is raising questions if there was adequate security. […]
LANGHORNE, PA Dec 18 2020 — Police in Middletown Township are crediting one of their officers with helping defuse a suicide threat outside Oxford Valley Mall over the weekend. On Friday night, officers were dispatched to the Macy’s parking lot at the mall, at 2300 Lincoln Hwy. There, they discovered an 18-year-old young man holding a […]
Newmarket Canada Dec 18 2020 It wasn’t a murder, jewelry store robbery or even shoplifting. It was merely a couple asked to leave by security enforcing provincial orders deeming the dining area off-limits for consumption. In a free country, where people have Charter rights, was such force necessary? “There were other people in the food […]
ATLANTA GA Dec 16 2020 One of Atlanta’s busiest malls will be adding metal detectors to a growing list of safety precautions in the face of multiple shootings, or reports of shots fired inside or nearby, in the last year. Lenox Square shared a statement with 11Alive on Monday that listed existing security measures, new ones […]