Mall Shooting in Wisconsin Leaves 8 Hurt, Police Say

One customer who was waiting just outside the store was shot, and several others, some of them wounded, were on the floor.

“Which of those were wounded and which were tending to the wounded, I don’t know,” he said.

Mr. Lugauer and other employees escaped out a back exit and escorted a wounded customer to safety.

The police arrived shortly after the gunfire erupted, he said. Once he got outside, Mr. Lugauer said, he noticed that one of his employees had not emerged.

Mr. Lugauer went back in to find the employee, who was helping one of the wounded.

“Everyone’s shaken up,” he said.

Also in Wauwatosa this week, a city police officer who fatally shot an armed Black teenager in February and, since 2015, killed two other men while on duty, agreed to resign, the city said on Tuesday night.

Joseph Mensah, a Black police officer in the Wauwatosa Police Department, agreed to resign on Nov. 30 as part of a “separation agreement” with the Wauwatosa Peace Officer’s Association, the police union, and the Common Council, the governing body of Wauwatosa.

“Now is the time for all of us to come together and heal,” the mayor said in a statement on Tuesday. “We’ve made substantial progress during 2020, and in the coming year we’ll continue to focus on positive change for our community.”

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Will Wright and Michael Levenson contributed reporting.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/us/mayfair-mall-shooting.html