SAN FRANCISCO, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Two suspected gunmen are still on the run and the police are investigating a shooting incident at a mall in Northern California late Tuesday, local media reported.
Police said two possible gunmen were involved in the shooting at Tanforan Shopping Mall in San Bruno, Northern California, in which two young adolescents were wounded and hospitalized, with one in critical condition and the other in serious condition.
San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini told KPIX5 TV channel that the shooting was not a random mass shooting attempt, but with a possible target.
"There was some kind of intent behind this ... It wasn't just someone just arbitrarily walking through the mall firing shots," Barberini said.
The shooting created a scene of chaos and forced the San Bruno BART metro station closed for over four hours, said the TV report.
Bay Area cities have been plagued with gun violence in recent years, with multiple shooting incidents resulting in the deaths of innocent residents.
In March 2019, a 25-year-old woman was killed in one of three Bay Area freeway shootings when her car was shot on a highway in Concord, northeast of San Francisco.
In the same month, a mystery sniper shot at the windows of 20 charter buses driving Apple staff to their workplace in Silicon Valley.
On June 25, a gunman killed two employees at the Morgan Hill Ford dealership in Northern California.
