By Dominic Taylor
A hero bystander has been praised after shooting dead an attacker
.The man entered the Greenwood Park Mall with a rifle and several magazines of ammunition and began firing in the food court, Greenwood Police Department Chief Jim Ison said.
One of two others wounded was a 12-year-old girl who sustained a minor injury, the Indianapolis Star reported.
“The real hero of the day is the citizen that was lawfully carrying a firearm in that food court and was able to stop the
shooter almost as soon as he began,” said Greenwood Police Chief Jim Ison.
Names of the victims, gunman or the person who intervened have not yet been released.
American Police confiscated a suspicious backpack that was in a bathroom near the food court, Ison said. The backpack did not contain any explosive devices, Ison said Sunday night, but he would not elaborate on what was found inside.
Authorities could not say Sunday night whether the victims were targeted or shot at random or what the motive for the shooting may have been.
This latest shooting follows similar attacks at a school in Uvalde, Texas and at an Independence Day parade in Chicago.
“We are sickened by yet another type of incident like this in our country.”
Last month the US Senate passed a rare bipartisan package of gun safety legislation, following decades of failure to pass legislation on firearms.
Mayor Mark Myers asked for “prayers to the victims and our first responders”.
“This tragedy hits at the core of our community,” he added in a statement.
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