Shooting at Work

So I just remembered a story that I hadnt told yet and here's a picture of where it all takes place (Mall San Pedro, where we work):

The Friday my mom came to town I was going to leave directly from work to go downtown to get a bus to the airport cause she was supposed to get in around 7 (this was prior to all the delays). So after work Amber and I were waiting for the elevators when the guard was like, "Hey, you probably shouldnt go down there. There's a guy in the mall with a gun." So were were like, hmm its probably a good idea to just stay here so we went back into the office and waited there- our offices have guards on every floor so we were safe.

Just then our co-worker Alice came running in crying saying she lost Bonnie, our other co-worker. We were trying to understand what happened and when we sat her down and gave her some water to catch her breath she told us she was in Fusion, a bar at the entrance to the mall, when an argument broke out and one guy stood up and shot another guy several times in the chest. They all went running from the bar but Bonnie went back to get her purse. Alice ran directly to the office because she didn't know where to go.

The man with the gun also went running through the mall and injured two more people along the way. He stopped near our office and ran into the bank, I guess he was gonna try and get all he could while he was on the go. He was in there for quite awhile before the police actually got him.

During all that our managers and team leads went out into the mall to find each of the people that had just clocked out and were headed to the bar. Another team lead got in his car and drove around the mall looking through the crowds out there to find them as well. As each person was found phone calls were made to the office to inform the other people waiting. I was really impressed with how they handled that and went out looking for the employees.

Later on the news we saw that the fight broke out because there were two groups of people sitting next to eachother and at one table there was a black man and someone at the other table made a racial slur and kept saying stuff to him. So the black man's friend started yelling at the other guy to stop and ended up killing him in his friend's defense. I'm sure alcohol played some role in all of that.

It was a pretty scary evening, but everyone from work was safe. I applied for a job at work, didnt get it haha, but I'll try again when they repost it. Amber only works half days now so she comes home and works on the computer here for awhile for her mom. I guess that's all the super exciting news for right now =) the last week has been kinda slow so nothing new and nothing worth taking pictures of...