On Tuesday, several police officers entered the Hulen Mall in Fort Worth. Later, police stated that “they were actively looking for suspects” who might be in the mall, or near it, following a nearby shooting.
Upon arrival at the mall, police evacuated all employees and customers. SKY4 helicopter for Fox 4 captured footage of police investigating a silver sedan that was on the mall’s property “that appeared to have crashed into bollards,” the news station reported.
The shooting near the mall happened earlier on Tuesday. At 11:30 a.m., police responded to a 911 call from a tow truck driver who was shot at in the 5900 block of Vermillion Drive at an apartment complex in Southeast Fort Worth. According to Fox 4, the driver was trying to repossess a vehicle.
When police showed up at the apartment complex, there was no sign of the victim. Still later, “police were notified the tow truck driver had made it to a storage company in the 300 block of Bolen Road in Kennedale,” according to CBS DFW. The driver escaped the situation to get to a safe location. The man was taken to the hospital with injuries, and his condition is unknown.
When police found a “possible suspect vehicle,” a chase began. The car chase started at Interstate 20 and led them to Hulen Mall. A total of five individuals were in the car, and near Macy’s Department store, three of them got out of the vehicle, and police quickly arrested them.
The other two individuals in the car began driving through the parking lot and crashed into a barricade between Red Robin and BJ’s Brewhouse.
Police believed that the two individuals on the run entered Hulen Mall, causing the evacuation. According to NBC DFW, the search of the mall resulted in police finding a gun but no other reports of shots fired or any other injuries.
The two suspects are still on the run.