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On the phone is eddie commonen. what have you seen and heard? >> i heard six or seven gunshots around like 9:20 p.m. i walked out of the store to see what was going on and there was just people running like crazy. i quickly closed my door and ran to the back and turned off the lights and music. >> that's where you are currently now inside the mall? >> yes. told by police officers not to move. >> so you have seen police on the scene? >> yes. >> can you say where you heard the shots emanating from? >> most likely from the macy's area of the mall. which is to the right of us. >> and you said abou...

>> they weren't rapid at all. one and 30 seconds later, another one. it wasn't one right after the other. it was like a shotgun sound. >> did you know right away what it was, that it was shots? >> no. at first i thought a construction crew dropped something or something like that. and then when they started seeing hearing it again and people starting running and things getting louder that's when i figured out what it was. so i closed my doors to hide. >> what time does the mall close there? >> 9:30. >> these shots were about 9:20. >> how crowded was the mall at 9:20? >> i mean, not really crow...

Usually you have an address of somewhere you can do, track that person down and get at them before something happens. it's basically what might have happened here. >> how common is it that people come to the police in advance and say so-and-so have been saying weird things, they struggle with drugs, they're disturbed, they're isolated. how often does that happen. >> not off at at uhl. i never had it happen to me at paul. >> we do the say something, see something with packages, is that an area we neglect with people's b behavior? >> looking at this at first blush, it seems like everybody reacte...

Which apparently the shooter was trying to eliminate. one young man who was hiding in the stores who said there are a lot of video cameras throughout the mall. there are a lot of cameras to check. that might give them a sense of where the shooter went. all of the eyewitnesss and all those who heard the shots have told us it all seemed to emanate from the area around the nordstroms. even people in the parking lot heard shots from inside the nordstrom. whether that occurred inside the store or inside the mall just outside the entrance to the nordstrom is unclear. but a number of eyewitnesss have...

You look down at buildings half the height of the empire state building. >> just even getting that formula one car up there is a feat in itself. >> it's high. that's the point. take it any way you want. coming up on "new day," we are watching two developing stories. an armed gunman dead inth in nj after opening fire at a mall and in denver, teens are now in custody after a tense standoff with police. that's a developing story. we'll take you to it.