i heard the gunshots. >> i heard five shots. >> run for your lives. >> take it serious? >> you don't know what to do in that moment. gunfire, inside a crowded columbia, maryland mall. three people are dead, including the gunman. >> reporter: i'm surae chinn at the scene of the columbia mall shooting. i'll have the latest. >> reporter: and i'll have the latest from witnesses about what it was like inside the mall. people are ordered to shelter in place. >> where do we hide? >> in the stockroom. we hid in the back rom and locked the door. . hello. i'm bruce johnson. thank you for joining us. howard county police released the names of the young man and

woman killed inside columbia mall. name of the dead shooter and his motive, still being held by investigators. we've got team coverage for you tonight from columbia mall. let's begin with surae chinn. you've got a couple of names for us, surae? >> reporter: i do, bruce. police just releasing these names, just a short time ago, 21-year-old brianna benlolo of college park, maryland. and the second victim, 25-year- old tyler johnson of ellicott city. now, we can tell you that brianna's facebook page, seen here, she is listed as a first assistant manager at zumiez, a skateboard shop. she worked there since 2012, and her hometown is also listed as cocoa beach, florida. her instagram also lists her as a mother. right now, police have not identified the suspected shooter and the reason being is police have found a large

amount of ammunition on his body. now they have called in bomb technicians to go through and make sure everything is safe. let me walk you through what happened this morning. 11:15, shots rang out inside the zumiez skateboard s hop, located on the upper level, above the food court. victims were found inside and outside of the store. the two victims, as we mentioned, in their twenties, were employees of that shop. cbs sources say this was a domestic-related shooting, but howard county police chief bill mcman will not confirm a motive at this time. authorities, as mentioned, are going through safely the shooter's body. here's what they have to say. >> he was also still, had a large amount of ammunition still on on and about him, and so because of concerns about any other weapons he may have or explosives, we are

approaching this with an abundance of caution. the howard county police department is investigating the, the shooting incident. we do not know yet what caused the shooting incident. any, any attribution of this being domestic related or something else is purely speculation. >> reporter: there was chaos after those shots were fired. shoppers and mall workers were running from that scene. i can also tell you five hours later, people were also reunited throughout that time. but five hours later, they were able to clear the mall. they went through every inch, every store, every bathroom and storage to make sure they got every shopper and mall worker out of that mall. just a harrowing day, a saturday morning going shopping. bruce? >> surae chinn, thanks a lot for that. montgomery mall, a massive crime scene right now, mall

still closed. at 11:15 this morning with bitter cold temperatures outside, columbia mall was packed with people. while police say there was no stampede when the shots rang out, crowds heard the commotion, some witnessed the shootings, then ran or scrambled to try to find shelter. nikki burdine has their stories. >> reporter: it really is just hard to imagine how terrifying it must have been in the mall here this morning, as people were there when all of this unfolded. now, we spoke to several people who were inside stores. they say they heard a quick pop, pop, pop. managers and other employees got them into back rooms into safety where they could wait until they could get out. we even spoke to one woman who says she and her young son were hiding in a back room and she gave him a coloring book so he could keep occupied until they could get out. we spoke with several other people as they were leaving the mall. you could see the relief on their faces and also the shear terror as this was coming to the realization for them. >> i was in the salon and

someone came in and said there was shooting in the food court and folks just started coming in the store and we sheltered in place. >> we heard the first gunshots and then everyone kind of paused and then the other gunshot and everybody just started running. it was, just, like, mayhem, out of a movie. it was crazy. >> there were at least eight to 10 shots. i thought it was somebody doing construction by the food court, but everybody started running. so i ran into perfume mania and we all hid in the back room and locked the door and waited for the police to come and they came twice, once to tell us to stay put, to be completely silent, and the second time when they came back was to tell us they wanted us out of the mall. >> i've never been through anything like this, never experienced anything like this. >> the fear in their ice, when they run screaming, run for your life. you don't know what to do in that moment. >> you got knocked over, you

said? >> i got knocked over. >> she fell down. >> i fell down. people are just, like, crowds, just running. >> strollers and shoes-- >> you never know. i didn't expect this when i woke up this morning. >> reporter: it did take quite a while for everyone to be evacuated from the mall here. once they were, there were buses waiting to take them to where they needed to be, whether their car or whether they needed to get a ride home. but everyone has been cleared out now that did not have anything to do with the shooting. we will continue to stay here and bring more updates as we get them. live at columbia mall, nikki burdine, wusa 9. >> nikki, thanks for that report. we want to take you up high, scenes from sky 9 right now live looking at columbia mall. as we said before, the mall is closed, probably will be closed for the next couple of days. it is a major crime scene. five people from the mall in

columbia were sent to howard county general hospital. within the last 45 minutes, all were released from the hospital, including one person who had been shot. our reporter is at the hospital with more. >> reporter: five people from the mall in columbia shooting were sent here to the howard county hospital's emergency room. just been the last 45 minutes, all five of them were released, including one of the victims who was shot. we're told that victim was shot in the foot. hospital staff won't say exactly under what circumstances that person was shot. but again, they were shot in the foot and released from the hospital. the other four, also just released, were not shot at the mall, but hospital staff say they, quote, sustained injuries as a result of the situation. they didn't clarify, but we are told they were injured in the hustle and bustle of trying to get out of the mall once they heard the gunshots. hospital staff does say while they hope to never encounter these incidents, they are always ready for them. >> we had folks report

weren't here, reported in and got prepared. we made some adjustments in the emergency department, in the event we were going to get mass casualties. fortunately, we did not. so we were there and ready. >> reporter: we did request to speak to these victims, but none of the victims wanted to go on camera. we're going to go back to columbia live mall later in this broadcast. again, we still don't know the name of the shooter and don't have a motive for the shootings today. columbia mall, the main shopping center for a hundred thousand people nearby in the city of columbia, maryland. the mall opened in 1971. as part of a planned living/working community of columbia at the time. renowned designer james roush created the community, with the vision to eliminate racial, religious, and class segregation. howard county mall is located halfway between washington, dc and baltimore. it has several anchor stores, including sears, nordstrom, macy's and lord & taylor.

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. we're back live over columbia mall, where earlier this morning, 11:15, to be precise, shots rang out, crowded shopping mall, thousands of people there this

morning, families with children. three people ended up dead. the gunman, among them. his name and motive, not released at this point. today's deadly shooting at columbia mall had an emotional impact on the hundreds of mall employees and shoppers who were inside when those shootings broke out. >> i thought i heard something fall. sounded like bricks. all of a sudden, i saw people fall. three people that were shot fell. everybody ducked to the ground. i heard more than 10 shots. >> we grabbed all of our customers, the children and took them out back and locked the door. they were steel doors. >> what was going through your head? >> protect them kids. >> me and my mother, we started running to the closest shelter and then we let everybody in the salon know, the jcpenney salon. then we were escorted down to the jcpenney area. >> i didn't expect this when i

woke up this morning that, someone would be shooting here. i come here three or four times a week. we've seen these scenes elsewhere and heard interviews from other parts of the country. another witness at montgomery mall said it was like watching something crazy out of a movie. in more breaking news tonight, firefighters on the scene of a two-alarm fire in silver springs, maryland. the fire started just after 4:30 this afternoon in the 12100 block of sweet clover drive. when they arrived, firefighters encountered heavy smoke and flames through the roof. they have not yet been able to confirm initial reports that somebody may be inside that house. we'll have more details as they become available in this broadcast. when we come back, we'll check out our chilly forecast. j

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dusting possible. then as we head past midnight, partial clearing and it is going to turn colder. so temperatures quickly dropping way below freezing, down to 12 in the suburbs, 20 downtown. winds become northwesterly at 10 to 15 miles per hour. so tomorrow morning, it will be partly to mostly cloudy, cold, but not too windy. temperatures in the teens and 20s. west winds at only 5 to 15. so at least that windchill won't be much of a factor. in the afternoon, partly cloudy, a slight breeze, but colder with highs between 24 and 30 and south winds at 10 to 15 miles per hour. over the next three days, we're keeping weather alerts green, but there is a chance for another flurry or snow shower on monday. a high of 35, but then the arctic plunge comes back in. tuesday, a high of only 20 degrees, with lots of sunshine, though. it's going to be a sunny and cold middle of the work week. the first alert seven-day forecast, high of only 24 degrees on wednesday. back up to 30 on thursday. so a little bit better.

then it actually is going to get milder by the weekend, but we have the chance for rain showers on sunday. stay with us. we'll have more news and sports when we come back. erica, thanks a lot. let's go back to surae chinn at columbia mall. do we have anything more on the suspect, name and possible motive? >> reporter: we don't yet. police are really taking their time, being very careful. they specifically said that he was found with a lot of ammunition. so you have to think that police have not actually gotten a very close look at him because they have called in bomb technicians to do the necessary things to deem everything safe. at this point, we have not heard of any identity of the shooter. >> motive? >> reporter: again, cbs sources have said domestic-related -- this was all due to that sort of thing.

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outfit together. fans are pretty stoked, too, about it. here's proof. the nats fest, annual gathering of the nat- titude. the new manager told me what he's learned about this team since taking over. >> the players as a whole, i think, are a little disappointed in the way things went last year. they are ready to go now. they are ready to go for this spring training. everybody i've talked to is itching to get there. maybe they got a little chip on their shoulder from last year. >> you've answered all the tough questions. i'm going to ask one more tough question. do you like the pants? >> definitely festive. [ laughter ] >> i think christmas came late or something like that. i don't know. [ laughter ] >> stephen strasburg making fun of my red velvet pants! one of the headliners at the

festivities today. i think he's poised to have a monster year. i talked to him one on one for about five minutes today. he was very candid about why the team didn't meet expectations last year. >> we didn't deal with adversity too well. we kind of beat ourselves way too many times. might even read into what everybody was writing about, especially with all the expectations and doesn't really matter how good you look on paper. at the end of the year, it's the team that wins it all is the best team. >> i sort of like those pants. biggest college basketball game in the region this afternoon, not georgetown, not maryland. george washington versus george mason. battle of the founding fathers, i call it. gw starting to get trashed in the national rankings conversation. not ranked yet, but never know, keep winning, keep putting them together. first time the two have met as members of the a-10. this is what i call colonial team work. kevin larson doing a little kettle banging.

we go back and forth in the first half. 11 lead changes. second half, scrappy teammates, allen hitting the triple. 35-34, patriots on top. then the colonials begin to assert themselves. isaiah armwood, there is a lot of wood in that arm. that sparked an 8-0 run. gw goes 16-3 with the 75-69 victory. virginia-virginia tech. look at those biceps! looks like you, bruce, all buffed up! [ laughter ] >> malcolm in the middle of the nine line, 4-for-5 downtown. virginia by 17 at the half. this was a nightmare for virginia tech. the steal, flush. waugh69-49. tonight could be the night when the caps get back on top. let's hope the drought ends. this is a full-fledged famine for the caps. goal scoring is down. ovechkin is hurt, although he

will play tonight. the team has lost seven straight. they are in montreal looking to end the slide tonight. let's hope so. the wizards, yeah, tell you what, this could be the night when they finally tread water above .500. been five years since it happened. bradley beal playing the role of life raft last night, scoring seven of the team's last nine. washington at utah tonight. let's hope they can get things done tonight. big night of sports coming up and of course we'll be covering it all. >> your prediction, nats going to the world series, this town would go crazy. >> tipped first. mark it down. >> january 25th? >> you weren't first. write it down, okay. recap for us? >> sure. we're going to see another blast of cold air move in. as if today wasn't cold enough, behind those snow showers that are moving through, we're going to see another reinforcing shot of cold air. just a few flurries on monday and it will be just a touch milder. by the way, today we broke our

below-freezing streak. it had been below freezing since tuesday morning and then this afternoon, we finally got above that freezing mark. we could see temperatures aren't going to do us any favors this week. >> felt like a heat wave out there today! >> below freezing inside the studio! >> i know it, is cold. >> predict wizards going one game over .500? >> i think they will win tonight. john wall's been fantastic. thanks for watching. we'll be back here tonight at 11:00, with the latest on the shooting at the columbia shopping mall. bye.

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