Oak Brook mall shooting 911 calls released: 'Somebody's shooting the mall up'

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Monday, January 17, 2022
Oakbrook Center 911 calls released: 'Somebody's shooting the mall up'
Officials have released 911 calls for help from inside Oakbrook Center Mall where a shooting happened two days before Christmas.

OAK BROOK, Ill. (WLS) -- Officials have released 911 calls for help from inside Oakbrook Center Mall where a shooting happened two days before Christmas.

CALLER: I need, um, Oak Brook police department.

DISPATCHER: What's going on there?

CALLER: Somebody's shooting the mall up.

Multiple innocent bystanders were hurt on December 23 when two men opened fire at each other in the eastern part of the mall next to Nordstrom.

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People who could not make it out of the building were told to find a safe spot to wait for police to arrive.

DISPATCHER: Get anyone you can and try and get them to a safe, low location away from any windows and then lock down the store.

CALLER: We're locking this down right here.

The two men involved in the shooting were arrested and face several battery and weapons charges.

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