Dearborn police are investigating a triple shooting at Fairlane Town Center that left two young men dead.
The shooting was reported at approximately 1 p.m. Friday outside a Foot Locker store at the mall, which is located near the Southfield Freeway and Michigan Avenue.
"There appeared to be a fight or a disagreement and for some reason they didn't like each other and it escalated into gunfire," Dearborn Police Chief Issa Shahin said, adding the shooting was not random.
Shahin said investigators were interviewing some people at the police station, but couldn't say if they would be taken into custody.
The chief said people shouldn't be afraid to go to the mall.
"We've had acts of violence that happens everywhere, but this is generally a safe mall, it's a safe city," Shahin said.
Witnesses say they heard an argument and then gunfire.
"It was like one shot, and we didn't really know what it was, then it just kept going," Sierra Branch told WWJ's Darrylin Horne. Branch was inside the mall getting her eyelashes done. She hid in a back room.
Michigan State Police are helping in the investigation.
The mall was closed shortly after the shooting, but was expected to re-open later Friday afternoon.
Dearborn police are asking anyone who witnessed the shooting to give them a call.
