pat dooris has also been reporting from clackamas town center this afternoon. and pat, did you just talk to someone as well who was inside the mall? >> reporter: yes, i did. it was the middle of the afternoon when all this went down there. were a lot of people inside the mall. i have tyler petterson who was inside applying for a job at sears. what happened? >> that's correct. i was inside applying for a job. and the next thing i know, i see a few people running into sears and away from the middle of the mall, saying that they heard shots and there is a shooting going on. i wasn't sure if it was for real at first, until i seen the reactions on the faces that they were serious. very quickly the managers started getting everybody away from the entrance of the sears store and closing down the big doors and locking down all the doors. >> so were people hiding behind counters, that sort of thing? >> people started hiding behind counters, and eventually everybody went to the middle of sears. and on top of the escalators away from all the entrances and everybody could g

pat dooris, more than that for him.en here for quite a long time. >> the only thing that comes to mind is the springfield school shooting. >> right. >> but that was quite some time ago.