![]() ![]() ![]() She said employees and customers alike seemed shaken. The mall employee who did not wish to be identified said her store conducted a head count of employees after the evacuation. Jackson said he saw 10 to 12 people on the roof of the mall after he and Gentry had taken cover. She and Jackson were trying to contact the Apple store to find out when they could pick it up. Gentry said she hadn’t been able to retrieve her phone. Somebody tells me to get out of a mall, I’m leaving.” “That’s when everybody started yelling,” Jackson said. Gentry had just activated a new phone that was being held by an Apple employee. “We heard everybody (fleeing) and we’re outside almost instantaneously.” “We found a safe place to hide around the back,” Jackson said. They fled with others out the back door of the shop. Hunter Jackson of Medina and Grace Gentry of Cincinnati were at the Apple store when the evacuation began. “When everybody was running, they were, like: ‘Somebody’s got a gun,’” he said.Ĭhantal Foster said repeated gun-related incidents have made her wary of large crowds. Her brother, Chris Foster of Akron, said people were shouting about the incident as they fled the mall. “People on Facebook were saying people got shot,” she said. She said people in the crowd were posting to social media that an active shooter was in the mall. We were all just standing outside here trying to figure out what was going on.” “I was looking for my daughter,” she said. “I turned and saw everybody running.”įoster said her daughter was playing at a children’s area when the chaos started. 'I grabbed her and got out of there'Ĭhantal Foster of Akron said she had purchased some shoes and was getting water at the mall Starbuck’s when the evacuation started. The other male involved fled the scene, but is not expected to be charged. “That could change pending the investigation,” Adams said. ![]()
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