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Authorities revealed new details Monday on the weekend mall shooting in Greenwood, Indiana, including the identities of the gunman, three victims and the legally armed bystander who fatally shot the gunman.

The shooting rampage took place at the Greenwood Park Mall around 6 pm Sunday. Multiple people called 911 to report an active shooter. Three people died and two were injured as a result of the shooting. Greenwood is 15 miles south of Indianapolis.

The gunman was identified as Jonathan Douglas Sapirman, 20, who police said prepared for the shooting for a little over an hour in a bathroom before he emerged with a rifle, Greenwood Police Chief James Ison said.

The victims were identified as Indianapolis couple Pedro Pineda, 56, and Rosa Mirian Rivera de Pineda, 37, and Victor Gomez, 30, who is also from Indianapolis.

Police identified Jonathan Douglas Sapirman as the gunman.

The legally armed bystander who ended up shooting the gunman was

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Chattanooga’s first suburban shopping center has a new owner.

A Fayetteville, Arkansas-based real estate investment firm has acquired the 64-year-old Highland Plaza shopping center at Hixson Pike and Ashland Terrace as national investment groups continue to buy into the Chattanooga market.

The Fletcher Bright Co., which has owned and managed the Hixson shopping center since 1994, sold the 129,000-square-foot retail center last month for nearly $8.9 million, or nearly $69 per square foot.

The shopping center is anchored by a Walmart Neighborhood Center, which was previously sold by Fletcher Bright, and includes a Big Lots, Dollar Tree, Tuesday Morning and Farmer’s Furniture along with a CHI Memorial medical clinic.

A real estate partnership created by Core Equity in Fayetteville bought the shopping center with an investment partnership that is known as Core Highland Plaza LLC to expand into what company officials see as a growing Chattanooga retail market.

“Chattanooga is

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A brazen trio of thieves raided a shopping mall jewelry store in Florida Tuesday, smashing into display cases with hammers and making off with $100,000 worth of luxury watches, according to police.

Video of the 1:30 pm incident shows an employee scurrying off as the masked suspects bashed their way into glass display cases with hammers, according to a Facebook post from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.

Officials said the smash-and-grabbers targeted high-end watches at the Diamond Galleria store inside the Citrus Park shopping mall.

The thieves entered through an employee entrance before raiding the jewelry outlet, according to police.

After the heist, the crew ran into a waiting Nissan Murano SUV getaway car.

The robbers remain at large, deputies said.

Smash-and-grab crimes have surged in recent years, with thieves targeting posh shopping districts across the country and forcing some merchants to only admit customers who ring a bell.

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