by Scott Creighton
UPDATE:Witness claims Shoop was with 4 other guys who were armed and was only interested in shooting the security cameras mounted near the ceiling. Sounds to me like those guys whacked Richard and left him behind to take the fall.
UPDATE: Bergen County OEM deputy administrator on News12 “...at this time we have deci_ _ _, uh we have determined that it is not an active shooting incident.”
UPDATE: Now they are saying his body was found “behind a construction storage area behind the mall“
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…. and 6 hours later, the 20 year old actor is dead in the basement….
Was this a drill someone took live after the fact? They thought the shooter had left and didn’t find his body for 5 hours after the mall closed. Did someone take an unannounced active shooter drill in a mall in Jersey live by planting the dead body of the guy playing the “shooter” role in the basement?
Late last night another active shooter incident took place, this time in a Paramus New Jersey mall. It occurred around closing time so the lock-down didn’t effect business too badly. Some guy, Richard Shoop, an aspiring actor, ran around in the mall wearing a motorcycle helmet so no one could see his face and people reported hearing multiple gunshots during the rampage in which no one was hurt. Hours later they found in the utility area of the mall, deep in the basement somewhere, dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Odd thing is, only one bullet casing was found. Would that be the one that killed the “shooter”?
Curiously, it’s reported that Richard Shoop confronted a customer in the mall and just walked away from her while another witness said he heard him say he didn’t want to shoot anyone.
A 20-year-old man suspected of firing multiple shots and causing a lockdown at New Jersey’s largest shopping mall has been found dead of a self-inflicted wound, authorities said Tuesday.
Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said the body of Richard Shoop, 20, of Teaneck was found in a back area of the Garden State Plaza mall in Paramus. He said Shoop killed himself with the same weapon he used at the mall and that a note was found.
There were no other injuries.
Paramus Police Kenneth Ehrenberg said Shoop’s body was discovered around 3:20 a.m. Tuesday deep within a lower level of the mall that is not a public area. Shoop did not work at the mall, he said, and police are still seeking a motive for the shooting.
Chaos erupted shortly before the mall’s 9:30 p.m. closing time on Monday when authorities said a man dressed in black and wearing what is believed to be a motorcycle helmet fired shots. There were no injuries.
Witnesses said the sound of gunfire sent customers and employees rushing hysterically for the exits and hiding places at the mall, which will be closed on Tuesday.
Jessica Stigliano, 21, of Ridgefield, who’d been in the food court, told The Associated Press that she had thought, “Not many people run for their life, but that’s what I’m doing right now.”
Bergen County spokeswoman Jeanne Baratta told the AP that SWAT teams concentrated their search in the northeast corner of the 2.2 million-square-foot mall, near a Nordstrom store, believing the suspect might still be in the mall.
She said authorities found one bullet casing.” AP
“One witness said he heard the shooter say that he “didn’t want to shoot anyone.” Another woman who works in the mall, Anthea Brown, 26, saw the shooter and said: I just froze, I didn’t know what to think. He just look at me and kept on moving.” Heavy.com
According to witnesses, the shooter was firing his “long gun” into the ceiling while moving through the mall.
“Clarice Forbes, of Paterson, who also works at Talbots, said the man walked by the store while shooting a rifle into air...
… Alaa Hegazi, a contractor working in the mall, said the shooter told him, “I don’t want to shoot anyone here, just let me go.” Paramus Patch
So here we have an active shooter incident in which the shooter seemed angry at the ceiling and told folks in the mall who were scared that he wasn’t going to hurt anyone. He runs his little routine right at closing time so as not to effect mall business to adversely. Apparently he left the building and was later found in the basement, 6 hours later, shot once in the head, victim of his own weapon. The ONLY victim.
Did someone get this guy off Explore Talent (dot) com website and hire him for what he thought was a PR stunt for the release of the new Call of Duty Ghosts which came out at midnight last night? Did he figure out something was up and try to leave?
He damn sure didn’t want to hurt anyone while he was there and it seems like he had a bit of a future planned out being a “big star” in New York and Hollywood. So why would he just flip out and decide to scare people for no reason in Jersey and then kill himself?
Check out this comment someone left on a NJ (dot) com story:
He “wasn’t that active” and he had “already gone home”… how exactly did the cops know that?
The story is simply ridiculous.
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