A shooting at the Gardens Mall on Wednesday afternoon forced people to abandon their Valentine’s Day activities.
“A ton of people were crying,” said Kemen Fearon, who works at Cooper’s Hawk at the Gardens Mall and was hosting a Valentine’s Day wine tasting.
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“Next thing you know we see 50-100 people just run, start booking it,” Fearon said.
Seeing the panic, he said he quickly helped people into the restaurant and locked the doors.
Khalil McLean/WPTV“Our restaurant is pretty big so I just wanted to get any stragglers into our restaurants cause we can lock our doors so we’re pretty secure in there,” Fearon said.
One man said he was eating a slice of pizza when he heard what he said was 6-10 gunshots.
“There was at least a dozen people running towards me. I just grabbed what I could and took off,” said the man. “It seemed more like screams of people just in terror trying to leave.”