DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) 鈥� Investigators arrested a teenager in connection with a shooting at an Iowa mall that left the teen and another person wounded and sent people running for safety, police said Tuesday.
Police arrested a 16-year-old on several weapons charges after learning he had been taken by a private car to a hospital after the shooting Monday afternoon inside NorthPark Mall in Davenport, a city of 100,000 people located along the Mississippi River.
The teen and another person shot at each other inside the mall, Davenport Police said in a news release. Their injuries were not considered life-threatening.
The shooting prompted shoppers and workers to seek shelter inside store dressing rooms and elsewhere while others ran out of the mall.
Jason Signer and Isabelle Ortiz, both 18, that they were sitting in the mall when they heard shouts. They said they saw people running and also ran.
鈥淭hen there was one gunshot,鈥� Ortiz said. 鈥淎nd then two more. I was in shock, I think.鈥�
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