Police say the shooting was apparently sparked by a dispute between two couples who had ‘previous hostility.’ Other shoppers hide or flee in panic.
Reporting from Palm Desert and Los Angeles — Most shoppers headed to the Toys R Us in Palm Desert on Friday morning clutching their “door buster” ads and their shopping lists. At least two men walked into the busy store armed with their guns.
Instead of the usual frantic chaos on Black Friday, the year’s busiest shopping day, mayhem erupted in the electronics department about 11:30 a.m., leaving two men dead in a gunfight and crowds of shoppers ducking for cover.
Joan Barrick, 40, of Desert Hot Springs said she was buying a Barbie Jeep for her daughter when two women started brawling. As the women swung at each other, the men they were with also started arguing.
The younger of the two lifted up his shirt and flashed his handgun, pulling the grip from his baggy pants pocket. The other man yanked out his own handgun and started chasing him down the aisle and firing, witnesses said.
Barrick hid behind a stack of DVDs and recited the Lord’s Prayer. “If I’m going to die, I need to make peace,” she said. “A lot of people were crying. I was crying. We were all very, very scared.”
As the two men ran shooting through the aisles, shoppers dumped their purchases. LaToya Jenkins, 20, had already bought a remote-control bike. She dropped it and ran. Others left behind shopping carts full of the bargain-priced toys they had come in search of.
Several witnesses saw the gunmen clearly. Some cried out warnings: “He has a gun!” and “¡Pistola! ¡Pistola!” Barrick was so close she could see the smoking gun.
“This is horrible,” said a shaken Sara Frahm, 25. “I’m never shopping on Black Friday again.”
Even after the shooting, one woman was still screaming angrily. In raw video footage posted on the website for KESQ-TV Channel 3, the woman is being handcuffed and led to a police car. “I’m going to . . . kill you right now!” she shouted, slamming her fists on the car. “I’m going to kill you! Yeah, you!”
Ken Maddox of OneAngryMan.com
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