Calgary Police Service respond to targeted shooting at CrossIron Mills

The Calgary Police Service and Alberta RCMP have responded to reports of a shooting at CrossIron Mills Mall.

An initial tweet at 8 pm stated that officers were currently involved in an incident at the mall, though it did not provide details.

The RCMP are currently involved with an incident at the Cross Iron Mall. If at all possible please avoid the area.

— Calgary Police (@CalgaryPolice) September 17, 2019

Witnesses who had been in or around the mall at the time took to social media to report what happened, with Emma Wilde Lockyer posting on the public Facebook group What’s Happening in Calgary about being in the mall during the lockdown.

“I’m in the back of a store and the manager was told by police that someone has been ‘seriously injured,’ she stated in the post.

A further update to the same post noted that the lockdown had been lifted and that the mall was being evacuated one store at a time.

Neither the Calgary Police Service nor the Alberta RCMP media line were available for comment when called.

At 8:32 pm the Calgary Police Service provided an update to their Twitter account stating that the incident had not been an active shooter, and that police now believe it to have been a targeted attack.

The incident at @CrossIron_Mills was NOT an active shooter incident and was believed to be a targeted attack. We do not believe there to be any further risk to public. As this incident does fall within @RCMPAlberta jurisdiction, further information will be released by them. #yyc

— Calgary Police (@CalgaryPolice) September 17, 2019

As such, police do not believe that the public is at any further risk, though there has been no official word yet on an arrest.

More to come…