Shotgun Maniac in Trolley Square, SLC. Updated.

This is local to me, and don't worry I was nowhere near the area. But I will quote the Salt Lake Tribune which recorded several eye witness accounts:

Ron Mason and DeEta Barta, of Salt Lake City, said they were eating at the Desert Edge Brew Pub when they saw a man coming in from the west parking lot. The man, wearing a dark trench coat, was carrying a long rifle or shotgun.

They yelled, "There's a man with a gun!" A few seconds later they heard about 12 rounds.

Mason and Barta, who are registered nurses, went to assist the victim, a younger man who had suffered a superficial gunshot wound to the right temple and ear.

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On their way out of the mall, they saw a "heap of bodies" in one of the stores, Black said. The injured people were being treated by paramedics, he said. They saw at least one other man on the ground while leaving the mall, he said.

The news media is all over it, and from rumors I have heard, the number of deaths are in the 20s, but I have no way of verifying that now.

I don't want to turn this into a gun control issue, because it is not, at least not yet. In Utah you can carry openly and concealed if you have a permit. If there is any lesson, it is that not enough people were armed.

Update: At least five were killed, and several more wounded. There were literally hundreds in the vicinity.

Update: Gateway Pundit has the news roundup as he always does.

Update: More developments. Owners of mall issue statement. Shooter was 18 years old, armed with handgun and shotgun. Five people dead, not including shooter:

Nearly three hours after the mayhem began, Snyder said police were still getting phone calls from people who were hiding in closets and fitting rooms inside the mall...

An off-duty Ogden police officer was in the mall at the time and fired his weapon at the shooter, killing him, according to Barrett Dodds, an antique-shop owner who witnessed the event.

Ogden Police Sgt. Blaine Clifford confirmed there was an off-duty police officer involved in the mall shooting. "I don't know what level of involvement he had."

Dodds said the shooter was about 6 feet tall, wearing a long trench coat and a backpack, and that he stopped to reload his weapon several times while inside the mall. Dodds said he heard as many as 20 shots fired, and he believed the man was "putting the gun to his shoulder and aiming at people."

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