13-year-old girl killed in Concord Mills parking lot shooting, 2 hurt, police say
A 13-year-old girl was killed and two boys had non-life threatening injuries following a shooting in a Concord Mills parking lot Saturday night, Concord police said.
The incident happened at the Dave and Buster’s parking lot, police said.
The girl was dead at the scene, and the boys were taken to Atrium Health’s CMC Main hospital, police said. There have been no arrests yet.
Police said they received a call about a fight, and then shots were fired at the mall about 8:40 p.m.
“There was a lot of chaos, people were running everywhere. It could’ve been us,” one person at the mall told Observer news partner WBTV.
A mall employee told WSOC-TV that hundreds of people ran through the mall and the parking lot at the sound of shots. A man told the station he used his belt as a tourniquet for a teenage boy shot in the arm.
Shots may have been fired from a car in the parking lot during a fight, police said.
Area secured
About 10:40 p.m., police said they had secured the perimeter of the mall and were moving the location for where parents could pick up their kids.
That was at the parking lot of Sea Life Aquarium.
Police are asking that anyone with information about the shooting call them at 704-920-5000 or Cabarrus County Crime Stoppers at 704-932-7463.
Prior mall shooting
This was the second shooting at the popular outlet mall near Charlotte this year.
In March, a man was shot and wounded at the AMC Concord Mills 24 movie theater, the Observer reported at the time. That wound was not life-threatening, the Observer reported.
The shooting was the result of an argument over seating in the theater, police said.
The mall is about 15 miles from Uptown Charlotte.
This story was originally published December 28, 2019 at 9:37 PM.
