There were no injuries in the episode, but reports of shots fired spread fear among thousands of people who were at the mall. Dozens of police officers, including a SWAT team, were called to the mall, Garden State Plaza in Paramus, N.J. The shooter had not been caught as of 11:30 p.m., and officers were still sweeping the mall to determine whether others were tied to the episode.
"Thankfully, there were no injuries reported," said Jeanne Baratta, a spokeswoman for the Bergen County executive.
The shots were reported around 9:20 p.m. on Monday, just 10 minutes before the mall was to close. Video footage on television showed police cars stationed outside the Nordstrom store.
Local authorities told reporters outside the mall that they had found a single shell casing from a long-arm rifle.
Thousands of people were evacuated over the course of a few hours after the gunfire.
Jonathan Astacio, a manager at the Brookstone store at the mall, said he heard what sounded like four gunshots near the store around 9:20 p.m. Mr. Astacio said he saw police officers searching the mall.
He and other employees at the store moved into a back stockroom, he said.
The mall is about 20 miles to the northwest of downtown Manhattan.
The mall, among the state's largest, is about 20 miles to the northwest of downtown Manhattan. It has about two million square feet of space and more than 250 stores.
The multilevel mall includes restaurants and a movie theater, meaning there were many people still there when the man fired the rifle.
Patrick McGeehan contributed reporting.
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