US shopping mall evacuated after gunman fires at random A gunman opened fire in a crowded shopping centre in the US state of New Jersey late on Monday leading to a mass evacuation of the complex. The man shot at least six rounds from a modified rifle seemingly at random and without hitting anyone. As people fled in panic, the man was not seen again until several hours later when his body was discovered in a back area of the mall. Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli gave details of the incident and identified the dead man as 20-year-old Richard Shoop, who had a history of drug abuse. Police evacuated thousands of people from the complex and launched a manhunt after shoppers reported hearing gunshots sometime after 9 p.m. local time, just before the mall was due to close. It was frantic. Absolutely chaos," said shop assistant Najee Waters. The shooting comes two months after a group of al Qaeda-linked militants launched an attack on a mall in Nairobi that killed 67 people.