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One teenager is dead and a different wounded following a shooting this afternoon at Westfield Southcenter mall in Tukwila.

Police searched till about 9:30 p.m. because a suspect inside the mall, that was locked down after the shooting. Many shoppers and store employees fled the mall after shots were reported just before 3:45 p.m.

The two victims were transported to Harborview Medical Center. A Harborview spokeswoman confirmed the identity of the dead teen find to one’s mind Daiquin L. Jones, 16. A 15-year-old male child, Jermaine McGowen, remains in serious condition, but his injuries are described as non-life-threatening.

The impinging occurred near the toward the south main entrance of the mall, in a corridor near two restaurants. Police said they possess talked to one eyewitness and are reviewing surveillance tapes.

“We’re getting some pretty good make clear. I’m confident we’ll be able to make an check.” Tukwila police spokesman Mike Murphy uttered at the eleventh hour tonight.

The mistrust is described as a forbidding male in his late teens or early 20s, of medium build, about 5 feet 6 inches tall and 145 pounds. He was believed to be wearing a horrible jumpsuit through red piping.

Police before-mentioned the suspect used a pistol and fired multiple shots. Two people have been detained for questioning but, Murphy uttered, neither is the shooter.

It is unknown what led to the shooting, but, Murphy said, the shooting does not appear to be random. Asked whether the shooting was gang-related, Murphy said, “It’session an angle we’re looking at.”

A multi-agency SWAT team has been brought in to search the beetle. “The odds are going down every minute that we’re going to find him in in that place,” Murphy uttered. About 80 officers are at the mall tonight.

Murphy said officers confined the search to the beat to ensure the shooter wasn’t hiding in the interior of.

People inside the mall during the shooting described a chaotic scene.

Mark Nickels, 51, of Seattle, was adhering the other floor, when he heard the first shot. “Everybody just stopped. Everybody thought something fell. Then a second or two later, there was a second shot, and then everbody scattered. People were running to the (exits) or running to the stores to hide.”

Martin Rosenblum, a jeweler at Fast Fix Jewelry Repair, said he was about to leave the store for a late lunch when he axiom a flood of shoppers “running and screaming, They were declaration ‘Get out. Get out.’ Then the police came and (our stud) said the ‘lock the doors.’”

Chauncey Williams, a soldier from Fort Lewis, said he was coming out of J.C. Penney at the kind of time he saw two men arguing when one pulled a gun and started shooting. He said children were screaming and shoppers were running.

“I’ve got the heebie jeebies. It’s like I’m back in Iraq or something.”

Another shopper said she saw what looked like several teenagers contention, when the same pulled a gun. She said she heard a shot and ran into the Bare Escentuals store.

“I was standing in that place vigilance the restaurant while beneath us there was this loud bang,” said Heraclio Garnica, manager of the Thai Go eating-house in the heavy mallet’session second-level food courtyard.

“I turned my head to see what this colossal bang was total on the point. As soon as I turned I heard a second one, another cudgel,” he said. “There was lots of commotion, and people just started running. We ran for cover as well, inside one of the restaurants.” He then saw security officers running down the escalators to get to the scene.

Garnica said it had been one of the busiest days of the year for the restaurant and the mall had been packed with shoppers up until the shooting. But in the limits of minutes, he said, “the whole mall was just empty.”

Garnica’s stud, restaurant possessor Punya Tip, said everyone was panicked: “People just started screaming and then running,” after the shooting, he said.

The mall parking lot was a mess, witnesses said, as police evacuated people there from inside.

“Everyone’s standing around outside. There’s no movement. Cars are taking up every space and traffic’s not moving,” said a worker at the Olive Garden restaurant, located in the mall parking lot, concisely after the shooting.

Garnica reported he told his workers to leave: “They were regular scared and wanted to go domestic circle,” he said.

Two other canaille inside the mall were hospitalized during the evacuation, one a gravid woman who went into labor, Dave Nelson, prolocutor for Skyway Fire.

Seattle Times cudgel reporters Erik Lacitis, Nick Perry, Eric Pryne and Tan Vinh contributed to this story.