This evening at about 7pm, a fight broke out between two girls inside of the Concord Mills mall.
A minute after the fight started, someone shouted that someone had a gun and panic ensued.
Here is the raw cell phone video of the incident;
Rumors then quickly spread that there was a shooting inside of the mall.
So apparently there's been a shooting at Concord Mills Mall. I pray there was not, everyone stay say tonight!
— Dunkaccino (@charles_cchs) February 25, 2018
Supposedly there was just a shooting in the movie theatre. Idk specific deltails tho
— ✰ gracie ✰ (@graciehunterrrr) February 25, 2018
The mall was then briefly put on lockdown while some people hid inside of stores and others were evacuated;
Well we had to hide out in TJMAXX storage room because someone was shooting in Concord Mall.
No… https://t.co/Ng91EH13u1— Pamela Zeigler (@Spicegirl_MsZ) February 25, 2018
Shooting at Concord Mills. They are Evacuating the mall.
— Dr Jane Fitch (@drjanefitch) February 25, 2018
According to the Concord Police Department, there were several reports of gunfire inside the mall, but they have not been able to find any evidence and are now labling the reports as false.
At about 7:30pm this evening, they sent out the following tweet;
Concord Police is currently at Concord Mills after receiving reports of gunfire inside the mall. No shots have been fired, no one has been located with a gun, no one located with any type of injury. /jsh
— Concord PD (@ConcordNCPolice) February 25, 2018
at 8:15pm they announced that the mall is still open and no one was injured from the false reports of gunfire;
Update-Concord Mills Mall remains open for business. No injuries related to false reports of gunfire./jsh
— Concord PD (@ConcordNCPolice) February 25, 2018
No arrests have yet been made surrounding the fight or reports of gunfire.