said on X<\/a> in the wake of the shooting. “My prayers are with these victims and I know our officers are doing everything they can to find the person responsible and hold them accountable.”<\/p>\nThe SJPD said officers were evacuating the mall in order to confirm that there was no ongoing threat, and advised the public to avoid the area as officers investigated the scene and worked “to ensure everyone\u2019s safety.”<\/p>\n
What they’re saying<\/p>\n
Several shaken Macy\u2019s employees could be seen embracing outside as the mall was evacuated and officers swept the property.<\/p>\n
Shoppers described a chaotic scene as gunfire erupted.<\/p>\n
“I was in Macy\u2019s shopping for lipsticks with my mom and my brother and we heard loud bang sounds,” said Ruhama Thomas of San Jose. “We didn\u2019t think much of it and then glass shattered, so we ducked down. It kept coming so we started running out\u2026 and then we heard more gunshots once we were outside.”<\/p>\n
“I saw people running and I got scared so I ran,” said Emma Schriefer of Morgan Hill.<\/p>\n
Other shoppers described getting separated from their loved ones in the mayhem.<\/p>\n
“We were getting pushed over because we were just trying to look back to our friends making sure they were safe,” said Colin Sawaya of Santa Clara.<\/p>\n
“I almost lost my shoe,” said Ison Danh of Santa Clara.<\/p>\n
SJPD is asking anyone who may have cellphone video that may assist the investigation to reach out to the department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A shooting was reported at Westfield Valley Fair mall about 5:40 p.m. Three victims \u2013 including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[590,88,90,89,2125,43330],"class_list":["post-74235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-police-department","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-police-department","tag-suspect-fled-the-scene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}