DALLAS, Texas — A mass shooting at a mall near Dallas on Saturday -- which left nine dead, including the suspect, as well as seven injured -- turned a shopping destination into a site of horrifying carnage.
The attack comes less than a year after a gunman opened fire at a mall in Greenwood, Indiana, killing three people and injuring two others. A few months before that, last April, a shooter at a mall in Columbia, South Carolina, injured 14 people.
"People can get out of their car, walk into a mall and do mayhem inside," Kenneth Gray, a lecturer in the Criminal Justice Department at the University of New Haven, told ABC News. Retail locations make up the second-most common site of mass shootings, accounting for nearly 17% of mass shootings recorded between 1966 and 2021, according to a previous ABC News analysis of data compiled by The Violence Project.
Bolstered security at such locations would require checkpoints at every entryway as well as round-the-clock guards available to respond quickly in the event of an attack, Tung Yin, a national security expert and professor at Lewis & Clark Law School, told ABC News. Peter Eliadis, a former law enforcement official and founder of the firm Intelligence Consulting Partners, said religious institutions have recently flooded him with calls inquiring about threat preparedness trainings but he has received far fewer requests from malls.
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