Oak Brook, Ill. (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Oak Brook Police are continuing to try to identify and find a man who was involved in an exchange of gunfire at the Oakbrook Center shopping mall Thursday night. The incident sent five people to hospitals.
The mall was crowded at about 5:45 p.m. and more would-be shoppers were streaming in when the shooting prompted a massive police response.
They didn’t initially know if someone was randomly shooting people or it was something else explaining the response.
“An officer who was working holiday detail at the Nordstrom store overheard gunshots coming from the area of the mall. She immediately radioed in the gunshots and came out to investigate and observed that there were two subjects engaged in gunfire with each other,” Oak Brook Police Chief James Kruger said.
One of the men was hit four times and is expected to survive. The second managed to get away in the chaos.
A third person, who police said was with one of the shooters, was arrested.
Three other people were hit: two in the thigh, one in the foot.
A fifth person, a woman, broke an ankle running away.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported despite the violence, the mall was expected to open between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Friday with an increased police presence.
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