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SpecterCody t1_j6bg1u1 wrote

Reply to comment by Girasol28842 in Holyoke mall shooting by runninginsquare_s

Yep. Today I was bored and said "fuck it I'll go to the mall to walk around and get out". I had this intrusive though that there could be a shooting because they are so common now. Lo and behold it happens when we are there. I was not even surprised, just shaken after the fact finding out it was indeed a shooting.

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Brampire666 t1_j6dieiy wrote

The exact same with me and my friends, I kept saying I thought of this happening we were by round 1 people were way too calm exiting, that it was hard to tell what was going on.

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SpecterCody t1_j6dow1g wrote

Yeah. We saw people just casually walking by towards where it happened when we were hiding at the back of Lens Crafters about 10mins after the event. There wasn't any visible security at that end of the mall. People were still trying to enter the mall as we left the back exit with the employees. It just felt very disorganized. There should have been police/security by every main entrance to alert people.

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Brampire666 t1_j6dqgzh wrote

What was weird is the store security said it was ok to go back in, we left I told my party fuck this let’s go after people started going back in lol

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SpecterCody t1_j6drpd6 wrote

I'm pretty sure it is never just ok for shoppers to go back into a mall after a shooting, suspect apprehended or not lol. Like do we expect the mall employees to just go back to business as usual after a traumatic event?

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