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(CNN)At slightest 1 idiosyncratic is successful custody aft 3 women suffered non-life-threatening injuries erstwhile they were caught successful crossfire the time earlier Christmas Eve successful a promenade successful suburban Chicago, constabulary said Thursday night.
Another idiosyncratic progressive successful the gunfire whitethorn inactive beryllium astatine large, Oak Brook Police Chief James Kruger said Thursday during a quality conference. A antheral successful his 30s who constabulary deliberation "is 1 of the offenders from this incident" was besides shot, helium said.
"It is our knowing that the 2 suspects progressive successful the shooting were known to each different and changeable astatine each other, and the different victims were injured by ricochet gunfire that the 2 suspects had fired astatine each other," Kruger said during a quality conference.
"It was crazy," Oakbrook Center shopper Camila Reyes told CNN affiliate WLS. "It was a batch of shooting. It was a batch of shooting. It was truthful loud."
"Everyone was panicking," different witness, Diane Sprague, told the quality outlet.
The injured were taken to hospitals and see 2 women successful their 40s, a pistillate successful her 20s and the suspect, constabulary said. Another idiosyncratic wounded an ankle trying to fly the scene.
A conveyance connected to a fishy was impounded, and the motive is inactive nether investigation, Kruger said.
The shooting sent the promenade into lockdown amid engaged vacation shopping.
"We tried to support everyone calm and harmless -- enactment distant from the windows. We locked the doors, stayed distant from the backmost door," Sprague told WLS. "There were children, aged radical -- made definite everybody was not injured."
About 100 constabulary officers from country agencies, including the full unit of the Oak Brook Police Department, cleared the mall, Kruger said. They worked store-by-store aft shoppers and employees were asked to structure successful spot arsenic SWAT and tactical teams searched the site.
The promenade is expected to reopen Friday morning.
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