One person dies at Fashion Island mall in Newport Beach – NBC Los Angeles

One person was found dead after reports of shots fired at the Fashion Island mall in Newport Beach, the Newport Beach Fire Department said Tuesday.

When police arrived at the scene, they found the deceased in the parking lot of the Barnes & Noble bookstore inside the shopping center.

A woman at the Barnes & Noble bookstore inside the mall said she and others were locked inside while a crime scene was being set up outside.

A customer also told NBCLA that while she was parking her car on her way to a Starbucks at the mall, she was stopped by another customer.

“I was parking my car. A woman came up to me and said she heard gunshots. She told me to leave the area,” the woman said.

She added that her friend, whom she had planned to meet at the coffee shop, had witnessed an attempted armed robbery by three men who were trying to rob a woman. But when a good Samaritan intervened, the three robbers fled in a possible yellow Camry.

As they fled, they knocked the woman down and three shots were fired, the woman told NBCLA.