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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mall Santa was waiting for the next child's Christmas wish when shots rang out, causing the shopping mall to erupt into chaos. About to invite a child to hop onto his lap, Brance Wilson instead dove for the floor and kept his head down as he heard shots being fired upstairs in the mall Tuesday afternoon.
Austin Patty, 20, who works at Macy's, said he saw a man in a white mask carrying a rifle and wearing a bulletproof vest. There was a series of rapid-fire shots in short succession as Christmas music played. Patty said he dove for the floor and then ran.
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Police and medics work the scene of a multiple shooting at Clackamas Town Center Mall in Portland, Ore., Tuesday Dec. 11, 2012. A gunman is dead after opening fire in the Portland, Ore., area shopping mall Tuesday, killing two people and wounding another, sheriff's deputies said. (AP Photo/Greg Wahl-Stephens)
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Mall shoppers and employees call after being released from the Clackamas Town Center mall Tuesday Dec. 11, 2012. Two people were killed and at least one other was shot at the Clackamas Town Center in Portland Oregon by a man brandishing a semiautomatic rifle, according to police reports. Emergency dispatchers received reports of a shooting near Macy's and that a man was seen with an AR-15 rifle near the mall's food court.(AP Photo/Thomas Boyd, The Oregonian)
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Onlookers observe the scene outside Clackamas Town Center in Portland, Ore., where a shooting occurred Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. A gunman opened fire in the Portland, Ore., area shopping mall Tuesday, killing at least one person and wounding an unknown number of others, sheriff's deputies said. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Bruce Ely)
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A law enforcement official secures the scene after a shooting at Clackamas Town Center in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. A gunman is dead after opening fire at the shopping mall Tuesday, killing two people and wounding another, sheriff's deputies said. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Thomas Boyd)
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Mall workers and shoppers wait to be cleared to leave REI at Clackamas Town Center in Portland, Ore., where a shooting occurred Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. A gunman opened fire at the suburban Portland shopping mall Tuesday, killing two people and wounding another as people were doing their Christmas shopping, authorities said. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Thomas Boyd)
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A tactical team moves through the mall parking lot at Clackamas Town Center in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. Witnesses say the scene went from cheery to chaotic in seconds when a gunman opened fire in the suburban Portland shopping mall Tuesday, killing two people and wounding another. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Thomas Boyd)
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