On December 11, 2012, a shooting occurred at the Clackamas Town Center in unincorporated Clackamas County, outside the city of Portland, Oregon. The gunman, 22-year-old Jacob Tyler Roberts, ran into the shopping center wearing tactical clothing and a hockey mask and opened fire on shoppers and employees with a stolen AR-15. He fired a total of seventeen shots, killing two people and seriously wounding a third person. Having attempted to reload his weapon and dropping three magazines, Roberts entered a stairwell and committed suicide after descending one level. Roberts had no connection to any of his victims, and it was believed to be a random act of violence. The Clackamas Town Center has a posted policy of prohibiting firearms on the premises. Sometime prior to the shooting, Roberts is stated to have stolen a AR-15 rifle from an acquaintance of his. Directly before the shooting, he visited a friend who lived two miles away from the Clackamas Town center, and he claimed that he was moving to Hawaii. He drove to the mall sometime later and parked at the south side between Macy's and Chipotle Mexican Grill. He ran into the mall through Macy's department store at 3:28 p.m.,…show more content… The first to be shot was 54-year-old shopper Cindy Ann Yuille, a hospice nurse and mother of two who was shot in the back; she died despite efforts of bystanders to treat her wound. 15-year-old Kristina Shevchenko, who was walking through the mall with her friend to reach the Town Center MAX station, was the second person to be shot; she received a bullet to the chest, but she survived and made it out of the mall, where she was treated for her gunshot wound. The final victim was 46-year-old father of two and youth sports coach Steven Forsyth, who was sitting by a rented kiosk and talking with his father on his cell phone when he was shot in the head and
