The shooting that emptied the Great Mall in Milpitas on Saturday evening was a suicide attempt, according to police. A 22-year-old man, initially thought to be a victim of a shooting at the mall, had turned a gun on himself, the Milpitas Police Department said in a news release. The man, a San Francisco resident, suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound and was taken to the hospital by paramedics. AdvertisementPolice arrived at the mall at 5:16 p.m. after reports of a shooting outside Old Navy. AdvertisementBy Sunday morning, detectives from the Milpitas Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit had determined that the man’s gunshot wound was self-inflicted.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 20, 2020 21:39 UTC