It's a refrain we've heard a
lot of the last couple of days.
This doesn't happen here in boy C Idaho.
In Idaho. In general,
a gunman opening fire inside of a local
mall in a quiet Monday afternoon,
killing two people, injuring four others,
including a boy, C police officer,
over the last 24 hours we've
seen it all over social media.
This doesn't happen here,
and it has it until it does.
According to one USA TODAY
report before yesterday,
there were only two states without a single
mass shooting incident since 2006 Hawaii.
And Idaho but yesterday afternoon that list
shrank to one at 1:50 in the afternoon.
Boy C police say they started
to get their first 911 calls,
claiming at least one person was
down at the Boise Towne Square Mall.
They say 27 year old Jacob Berquist
started shooting just outside
of the Macy's department store.
26 year old Joe Acker, a security guard,
went to confront the shooter
and was shot and killed.
According to police.
The shooter then went inside
Macy's and the shooting continued,
shattering the glass of an escalator
and hitting another victim.
49 year old Roberto Padilla
on the second floor,
Padilla would die from his injuries.
The shooter then ran through the store,
continued firing multiple
rounds into the floor.
According to police,
two of those rounds hit a 52 year
old woman and a 23 year old woman.
Officers were on the scene within 3 minutes.
Those first calls but for Acker
and Padilla it was too late.
Another man was injured in a fall as
he tried to get out of the building.
Police say the shooter then ran outside,
even shooting it as a boy.
C police officer who was in his car.
The bullet hit the officers hat
we're told and broke the car window.
The chase continued behind the
Dave and Buster's nearby where
he was met by officers at 154.
Four minutes after those
first first calls came in.
There was an exchange of gunfire
there between the shooter and at
least one Boise police officer.
That's when a stray bullet at a 68 year
old woman driving her car on Milwaukee.
The shooter were told was injured
and was taken into custody before
being taken to the hospital.
Police tell us today he had multiple
firearms and ammunition on him at
the time he was arrested and they
found a total of 18 shell casings.
They recovered inside the mall.
The four other victims are
all expected to survive.
This morning,
officers executed
a search warrant at a mobile
home on Fry Street that was this
morning in Boise. In relation
to this investigation. No word
on if they recovered any
additional weapons there,
but police say they did take some
items with them.
It was also this morning we learned
the shooter died from his injuries.
Boise police say there is now
a multistate effort underway
to learn more about him.
But it seems there was at least
some already known about him.
According to Chief Lee,
who said this about an hour ago.
We had had contact with him in the past.
We did not have any reason to arrest him.
He he was a known subject.
He is the subject of other police reports.
While he was a subject that
was known to the mall he had
frequented before mall security had
contacted him on past occasions.
Chiefly categorized the contact
as calls of disorderly conduct,
sorts, trespass, calls in nature,
and for what he referred to as
disruptive behavior. Quote unquote,
disruptive enough to raise concern
that this where it might be ended up.
Or maybe there was a threat
of some kind made beforehand.
Maybe there are other people involved.
Chief Lee addressed that as well.
We have heard similar rumors,
part of part of what we're
doing is to capture all of
their electronic footprint,
social media information.
And when I say limited,
is that all of his electronic
footprint and his social media.
We've issued preservation
orders through our colleagues,
our federal partners,
to ensure that that information remains
that it's intact for us to analyze,
we're going through and looking
to see whether or not that is
fact or rumor at this time.
As of now though,
the rumors of other people involved
right now remain that way. Not true,
according to Boisi chief of police,
the Meridian Police Department
has taken over the investigation
into the officer involved shooting
aspect of yesterday's events.