Police are still hunting the gunman who shot dead a pregnant woman at a Spirit Halloween store
Police responding to confirmed shooting incident at Solano Town Center Mall in Fairfield, California, the mayor says, in a picture posted on X by Noteworthy News.Shoppers scramble for cover inside the Spirit Halloween store in Fairfield, California, where three of the six wounded — including a 16-year-old boy — remain in critical condition.
Constance Hages, a 31-year-old mother of four, was pronounced dead at the scene after a gunman opened fire inside the Spirit Halloween store at Solano Town Center in Fairfield, California, at around 8:30pm on Friday. Police say the attack was targeted, involving a lone suspect who fled before officers arrived, and the FBI's Sacramento office is now assisting the investigation. Three victims — a boy of 16, and men aged 19 and 32 — remain in hospital in critical condition.
Her cousin Chelaya Colbert said: 'I'd like to remember her as the happy lady she was. She loved her kids.'
Witness Jocelyn Lopez Tabares, 15, filmed the chaos on her phone, saying: 'What if I wasn't going to make it out of there?'
The mall cancelled its Halloween trick-or-treating event and detectives are reviewing surveillance footage to identify the suspect.