May 2007: David Logsdon, 51, stormed the Ward Parkway Center parking lot in Kansas City, Mo., killing two and injuring 7. He was shot and killed by police. Feb. 2007: Sulejmen Talovic, 18, opened fire at a crowded Salt Lake City shopping mall, killing five and wounding four before being killed by police. Feb. 1993: Three people were wounded in a shooting at Camp Snoopy at the Mall of America in a dispute over a jacket. Dec. 1993: David Mack Flinn fatally shot two people and injured three in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Hugo, Okla. April 1987: William B. Cruse gunned down six and wounded ten at a Winn-Divis supermarket in Palm Bay Florida. Oct. 1985: Sylvia Seegrist, 25, dressed in combat gear and firing a semiautomatic rifle, killed three and injured seven at Springfield Mall in Pennsylvania. WHY MALLS?
Malachy Kavanagh, spokesman for the International Council of Shopping Centers, a trade association based in New York, has said that one reason malls are targets is because they are public places that people know well.
"People who are prone to do this seek out locations they know and where people will be congregating and where it will create a sensation. That's why it's so impactful when somebody does these things because it's so out of the norm."
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