BOCA RATON, Fla. _ Boca Raton police are investigating reports of gun shots fired at Boca Raton's Town Center mall Sunday afternoon.
"There is no active shooter at this time," Boca Police tweeted at 4:15 p.m. local time. Police were conducting a search of the mall.
Boca Fire Rescue said one person sustained a gunshot wound, according to WPEC-Ch. 12. That person was taken to Delray Medical Center.
The mall closed Sunday. Plans for Monday remain unknown.
Boca Raton Police and other law enforcement converged on the mall after reports of an active shooter. A shopper in the parking lot reported seeing officers with rifles going into Macy's.
Police and mall officials have not confirmed what the situation is, but they are "currently conducting an active search of the area," according to Boca Raton Police.
The mall was reportedly on lockdown. People were advised to avoid the area around the mall.
Shoppers described scenes filled panic after hearing gunshots and others shouting "active shooter."
Heather Tebbutt was shopping in Pink when she said she heard a gunshot.
"I heard a quick 'pop,' screaming and then a stampede," she said, still sporting a sweater she was trying on in the fitting room.
She said the store employees told her to stay in the fitting room and not to come out. She was then moved to a back room with about 20 of the store's employees and other shoppers before being evacuated.
Tebbutt said she wished malls took more safety precautions, like putting metal detectors in their entrances.
"They do it in schools," she said. "You should be able to shop without worrying about whether you're going to get killed."
Joel Meyer said that his wife Shauna and friends were inside the Macy's store when "people started yelling 'active shooter' and people started running out of the store."
One friend was in the dressing room and fled the store without her clothes, he said.
The women jumped into a stranger's car who took them to a nearby shopping plaza across the road.
"She is fine," Meyer said of his wife who was waiting to be picked up.
On Twitter, Rachel Cohn posted a video SWAT officers descending on the mall as shoppers scrambled outside into the parking lot.
Cohn, who lives in New York City, was inside the Lilly Pulitzer store when she said that people walked in a panic.
"I was confused but then got really nervous as the store staff took us by the hands and said 'OK, everyone follow us, we're all about to become good friends' and then they walked us to a safe area and then to the outside," said Cohn, 25, who is in town visiting her grandmother. "I felt really scared at first that we would be trapped inside, then a ton of relief that we got outside quickly so that we could leave."
Other shoppers described being trapped inside the stores they were in as the mall went into lock down.
Howard Krooks and his wife said they were locked in a staircase at Macy's.
"At first we sought cover underneath a shoe display, then ran into a hallway for employees that led us to a stair case," he said in an email. "We were fortunate that a Macy's employees followed soon after and was able to lock the door to the staircase. We are afraid to go outside."
The reports of gun shots being fired hits too close to home for the Krooks, whose son was good friends with Alex Schachter, one of the 14 students killed Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High last year.
"Never did I imagine that I too would experience the fear of an active shooter situation as my son did at MSD just 18 months ago," Krooks said. "When is this going to stop?"
The mall, which is home to Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom, Macy's and Bloomingdale's, has 220 stores.
