LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KARK) – Just a day after Thanksgiving, chaos struck at Park Plaza Mall in Little Rock, Arkansas, as shots were fired and two were left injured.
The gunfire is something that Denise Hill heard as she was shopping.
“You could hear the pop, pop, pop,” Hill said. “We heard somebody say bomb, so we thought it was a bomb.”
Little Rock Police Department officials confirmed that it was a shooting on the third floor of the mall.
“People started taking off running, people were coming out of shops and was like ‘What’s going on?’ and like there were people everywhere just running,” Hill said.
Dozens of shoppers were evacuated, and witness Demi Moore said she hid in an H&M store.
“Everyone got told to go downstairs in H&M and they have a back room and so they took us there and we were locked inside,” Moore said.
Moore said they stayed inside the room for about 45 minutes as she and others waited anxiously to leave.
“Some people were crying, and some were not saying anything and then some people were asking the employees for updates,” Moore said.
It’s an experience Moore and other shoppers are hoping to never witness again.
