A woman was killed and a man critically injured in a shooting outside a California mall in the early morning hours of Tuesday, police said.
The female victim who died called 911 at 1:15 a.m. (4:15 a.m. EST) from the parking lot of Macy’s in the Westfield Mission Valley Mall in San Diego, said San Diego Police Lt. Mike Hastings.
Police arrived at the Westfield Mission Valley Mall a short time later to find a woman in her 20s with gunshot wounds to the head and a man, also in his 20s, with gunshot wounds to the head and torso inside a vehicle, Hastings said.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene and the man was transported to a local hospital with “life threatening injuries,” Hastings said.
Hastings said the investigation was underway. “We’re not able to talk to our victims,” but “there were some witnesses and they’re being interviewed right now,” Hastings said. Investigators were also in the process of obtaining and analyzing surveillance video, he said.
“We have a lot of evidence to look at,” said Hastings, adding that detectives did not want to prematurely determine whether the shooting was random or the victims knew the shooter. Hastings could say, “Our speculation — the shooting did occur here” in the parking lot of the mall.
The suspect is male, wearing tan pants and was driving a dark gray Honda, Hastings said.
Although Macy’s website listed that the Westfield Mission Valley Mall Macy’s would close at 10 p.m. Monday night, Hastings said he believed the store was open at the time of the shooting.