At least four people were killed, including the suspected gunman, and two people were wounded after the shooter opened fire with a long gun at a mall in Greenwood, a south suburb of Indianapolis with a population of about 60,000, on Sunday evening before he was shot an armed bystander.
According to Greenwood Police Department Chief Jim Ison, the gunman entered the Greenwood Park Mall with a rifle and several magazines of ammo and began firing in the food court, killing and wounding the people, including a 12-year-old girl, whose injuries are minor.
Ison identified the ‘good Samaritan’ as a 22-year-old man from nearby Bartholomew County, who was lawfully carrying a firearm in that food court and stopped the shooter almost as soon as he began.
Police officers, who went to the mall for reports of the shooting, have searched the mall for any other victims though they believe the shooting was contained to the food court, but have confiscated a suspicious backpack found in a bathroom near the food court.
Responding to the tragedy, Greenwood Mayor Mark Myers said in a statement that Indianapolis Metropolitan Police and multiple other agencies are assisting in the investigation, asking at the same time for prayers to the victims and the first responders.
The Greenwood shooting is the latest in the string of mass shootings in the past months the US has experienced along with the attacks during the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, the shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, NY, and the massacre in the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
After the Uvalde shooting, the lawmakers passed the most significant federal legislation on gun violence in nearly three decades- the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law last month.
According to data from the Gun Violence Archive, only one day in June has not been marked by a mass shooting in the US.
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