Oregon shooting: Panicked people run from mall

An active shooter remained at large after shooting several people at a Portland, Oregon area shopping mall on Tuesday. While searching for the shooter, police and SWAT teams urged shoppers to evacuate the mall. ?

By Staff,?Reuters / December 11, 2012

Law enforcement personnel work the scene of a shooting at the Clackamas Town Center. A gunman opened fire in the Portland, Ore. area shopping mall on Tuesday.

AP Photo/The Oregonian, Bruce Ely

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A gunman opened fire at an?Oregon?shopping mall outside?Portland?on Tuesday and several people were believed to have been shot, authorities said, while local media reported two had been killed.

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The gunman remained at large at the?Clackamas Town Center?near the?Portland?suburb of Happy Valley, said?Steve Campbell, spokesman for the city.

"There is an active shooter at the?Clackamas Town Center," Campbell said.

The Oregonian?newspaper reported on its website that two people had been killed by a man using a semi-automatic rifle who may have also been wearing body armor. The paper said the shooting occurred near the mall's food court.

"The scene outside as I was leaving was just chaos," witness?Isabel Valentine?told the paper. "Police were everywhere, people were crying and screaming, and we still don't know exactly why this all happened."

Oregonian?sports reporter?John Canzano, who said he was at the mall when the shooting began, tweeted that "panicked people are running from the mall" and later urged his followers simply to "pray."

Police and SWAT teams established a perimeter around the scene and worked to evacuate the mall as they searched for the shooting suspect. The?Clackamas County Sheriff's office?urged members of the public to avoid the area.

A spokeswoman for the mall said she had no immediate information and directed calls to law enforcement.

(Reporting by Teresa Carson, Dan Whitcomb and Alex Dobuzinskis; Writing by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Peter Cooney)

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