Mall of America fatal shooting: 1 killed, 5 arrested.

In connection with the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old man Friday night inside a Nordstrom shop at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, five people were detained on Saturday, according to investigators. The mall was under lockdown for more than an hour as a result of the gunfire.

According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, police executed a search warrant at a residence in the neighboring city of St. Louis Park on Saturday morning and made five male arrests there. According to Hodges, two of the suspects were adults aged 18 and the other two were all 17-year-old adolescents. Their names weren’t made public.

He claimed that authorities were “pretty sure” that the person who killed the victim was in their custody.

Hodges revealed that detectives are still looking for the murder weapon and that they are trying to figure out whether there was a second gunman in the incident.

At a previous press conference, Hodges informed the media that an officer had heard gunshots Friday night at about 7:50 p.m. local time coming from Nordstrom’s first level. The man had sustained multiple gunshot wounds when the police arrived on the scene.

Despite attempts to save his life, Hodges said the man passed away at the site. He didn’t immediately give his name.

Hodges claimed that security footage revealed what seemed to be “some kind of fight between two groups” of males as the cause of the shooting. Then one of them pulled a gun and started shooting.

A woman, whom Hodges referred to as “an innocent bystander,” had her jacket touched by a bullet as well, although she was unharmed.

Following the incident, approximately five to seven people left the shop, according to Hodges.

After the bullets were fired, the mall was put under lockdown, and everyone was told to “stay in the closest secure spot.” A little bit after 9 o’clock local time, the lockdown was lifted.

The Minneapolis-Saint Paul metro area includes St. Louis Park and Bloomington.

This is the second shooting-related shutdown of the Mall of America in the previous five months. On August 4, shots were fired near a Nike store’s cash registers, however no one was hurt.

Chaos resulted from that gunfire, sending terrified customers and workers fleeing for cover. At the time, Hodges said that there had also been a fight between the two groups. According to Hodges, one of the groups left before returning, and when they did, one individual fired three shots into the store.

Days later, after a multi-agency manhunt, two men who were thought to have been engaged in the shooting were captured. Three more people were detained on suspicion of aiding the two men in eluding capture.

According to CBS Minnesota, the mall started experimenting with the installation of a “weapons detecting device” at its north entrance in October.