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Stressful situation for law enforcement. >> for law enforcement and for the employees in the stores. i -- you can't not comment. they have all been locked down, taking care of their employees, when they have been instructed, they are rounding up their fellow employees and customers and getting them out as quickly as possible. >> this began around 9:20 and has been going on for an hour and 30 minutes. there are a lot of -- it's a very stressful situation. sill ongoing inside that mall. that's the last word from the county executives. they believe that the shooter is still inside the mall. exact...

Active shooter incident is the most deadliest. that's when most of the damage will be conducted by your shooter. >> why? >> because it takes two minutes for a police response. two to three minutes for a police response. if there's an alarm, an alarm went out through the mall, you have to have a specific alarm saying this alarm says active shooter, lockdown. apparently what some of the people did in this mall was bring their gates down and stay inside their stores. that was a great move. all right? some people were inside the mall also took cover. that's a great move. there's only three things ...

Came into the mall to see if they can identify the vehicle and i tempt to identify who the person may be. >> is it a concern when you have people inside the mall and they are evacuating people out of the mall you don't want the shooter to blend in with people who are evacuating. >> that's the appointment point that was made by the woman before. they were frisked by police. and i'm sure they checked if there were garments consistent with what the early reports of what the shooter were wearing. >> the shooter is still in the mall. that is the word from county executives. they are searching the m...

His brother. >> it would look like an ak-47 but it is not an ak-47. it's where you take the handgun and modify it to make it look like something it is not. but it is a lawful gun owned by the brother. >> reporter: police say shoop has no history of mental illness but say he abused drugs. >> we do believe that the main motive for what he did tonight was suicide, whether self-inflicted or god forbid suicide by cop which no one ever wants to see. it looked like that was his motive. >> reporter: so the question is at this hour, chris, what could have motivated this 20-year-old to do this? police d...

Picture we have a large presence of many jurisdictions of police. there are 25 units here just outside the nordstrom. some passerbis by that we talke to indicated there is a gunman still loose in the mall. a passerby reported that to me. most people have made it to their cars and have moved out but it's they are saying that the mall is a lockdown. other than what you can see with the cameras. the cameraman is pan right now. at the other end of the mall there is another large presence. we heard -- this is where -- this gunman or the shooting or whatever, unconfirmed at this point happened start...