Police laud actions of man who killed Indiana mall attacker
GREENWOOD, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say the person who shot five people at a suburban Indianapolis shopping mall, killing three of them, before a shopper shot and killed him was a 20-year-old local man.
Greenwood Police Chief James Ison said at a news conference Monday that Jonathan Sapirman, of Greenwood, began firing after leaving a bathroom at the Greenwood Park Mall shortly before it closed Sunday evening.
Sapirman continued shooting people until a 22-year-old man who was legally armed shot and killed him, Ison said.
Authorities have lauded the 22-year-old man’s actions as heroic.