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2 men shot inside Mich. mall

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Associated Press

HARPER WOODS, Mich.

Police said two men have been critically injured in shootings inside a suburban Detroit shopping mall.

The mall has been closed as police search for whoever fired the shots.

Harper Woods deputy police chief Jim Burke told The Associated Press the shootings happened around 6 p.m. when a group of teenagers fired on a rival group at Eastland Mall east of Detroit.

Burke said the men were taken to St. John’s Hospital in Detroit, and both were expected to survive.

He said an 18-year-old was shot in the chest, and an employee at a clothing store was shot in a leg.

He says there had apparently been a long-running dispute between the two rival groups.