A 13-year-old boy was injured in a shooting at Wheaton Mall in Maryland Friday night, according to Montgomery County Police. Officers responded to the mall around 6 p.m. for the reported shooting. A preliminary investigation revealed that the 17-year-old was in the area of Cinnabon on the lower leve…
The victim was found with a gunshot wound to the leg, and the juvenile suspect was detained by mall security before being arrested by Montgomery County police.
Imagine being in a mall food court at 6 p.m. on a Friday night — the crowds, the families with children — when gunshots ring out. That was the terrifying reality for visitors and staff members at the Wheaton Mall in Montgomery County, Maryland, on the last Friday in July.
A 17-year-old suspect charged as an adult in a Friday evening shooting inside the Westfield Wheaton Mall has been ordered held without bond after a judge declared him a danger to the community. Police identified the suspect as Diego Rafael Tercios Avalos of Silver Spring.
