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January 27, 2014

3 Dead in Shooting at Maryland Mall 
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Three people are dead after a gunman opened fire in a Maryland shopping
mall before taking his own life. The gunman was 19 years old, while the
victims were 21- and 25-year-old employees of a skateboard store. A
witness described the scene.

Anthony Madole: "I was in Sears looking around and I heard a bang, and I
said that kind of sounds like a gun shot and then I see people running
and I heard some people screaming and I heard it again and it was just
boom, boom, boom, and people just started screaming and running. And it
was just complete madness, and I got out as quickly as I could. You know
I heard at least four or five gunshots."

In another incident of gun violence, a student was killed Friday in a
campus shooting at South Carolina State University. It was at least the
fifth school shooting in the United States this month.