No suspects after triple shooting at shopping mall

Two killed, one hurt in Lauderhill

The crowd bolted for cover as gunfire rang out in the jampacked Lauderhill Mall parking lot on Sunday night, leaving two men dead and another wounded, police said.

Lauderhill police have no suspects in the 9:52 p.m. shooting at 1257 N. State Road 7, which was a “chaotic” scene with “people running everywhere,” said Lt. Michael Santiago.

“Witnesses stated that a fight erupted and shots began ringing out,” he said. “After hearing the shots, people began fleeing the scene.”

Lawrence Hall, 32, of West Palm Beach, and Omarie Stephens, 28, of Lauderhill, died from gunshot wounds, Santiago said.

Police have not disclosed the identity of a third man who was shot in the leg and drove himself to Plantation General Hospital, where he was in stable condition.

Hall had shared an Easter meal with his family in West Palm Beach before ending up at the car show, his father, Ralston Hall, 57, said Monday evening.

He said a detective told him that his son’s dispute with a man in a navy blue Rolls Royce over a girl had triggered the attack.

“My son insulted the guy in the Rolls Royce in front of his posse and that’s why he got pissed off and pulled a gun and shot him in the head,” Ralston Hall said. “It’s a senseless murder. All these people with guns; everybody’s shooting, shooting, shooting.”

Santiago said police have “zero suspect information.’’

Because police found “multiple shell casings” at the scene “we know there was more than one type of gun fired,” he said.

The parking lot was filled with overflow from the Easter Sunday Donk Car Show at the Central Broward Regional Park & Stadium across the street. The show, featuring customized 1970s-era American cars with huge wheels, was highlighted in YouTube postings.

A police officer heard the gunfire while working security detail at a nearby restaurant, Joy’s Roti Delight, Santiago said. The officer had to maneuver through “several hundred” cars and people to get to Stephens, who was wounded in front of a business in the 1400 block of North State Road 7.

The officer tended to Stephens while paramedics struggled to “get through the massive crowd,” Santiago said.

Paramedics found Hall on the east end of the mall.

Kamerron Row said he saw “hundreds of people” in the mall’s parking lot when he stopped in at a nearby AutoZone.

“As soon as I opened the front door to AutoZone, I hear screaming,” Row said.

The sound of gunfire sent the crowd surging across the parking lot, he said.

As of Monday evening, no suspects had been arrested and police were hoping the public would come forward with leads.

“There were a lot of people here, a lot of people here,” Santiago said. “Somebody saw something.”

Investigators urge anyone with information about the shooting to contact the Lauderhill Police Department at 954-497-4700 or call Broward County Crime Stoppers, anonymously, at 954-493-8477.