Garden State Plaza mall gunman investigation ongoing
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 Last updated: Tuesday November 5, 2013, 1:42 AM
BY ABBOTT KOLOFF, JEFF GREEN AND JIM NORMAN
STAFF WRITERS
The Record
All Ridgewood Police Department units that respond to the shooting incident at the Garden State Plaza have returned back to the Village safely.
A gunman, dressed head-to-toe in black and wearing a black helmet, fired shots in New Jersey’s Westfield Garden State Plaza mall in Paramus just before closing time Monday night, witnesses and authorities said.
None of the witness reported seeing anyone hit by the gunfire, and Jim Tedesco, the deputy coordinator of the Bergen County Office of Emergency Management, confirmed late Monday night that no injuries had been reported.
Witnesses described a chaotic scene that unfolded as the sound of gunshots rang out inside the mall just before it was due to close at 9:30 p.m. Authorities ordered shoppers and employees to huddle behind locked doors in the mall’s stores. Many were escorted to safety, but many more — perhaps thousands — remained inside the mall under lockdown orders after midnight, authorities said.
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