PALM DESERT, Calif. - Two people have died in a shooting incident at a Toys "R" Us store in Southern California on the busiest U.S. shopping day of the year.
Police in Palm Desert, Calif., say it is still unclear if the shooting was connection with the so-called "Black Friday" shopping frenzy.
They say they received calls of shots being fired around 11:35 a.m.
Immediately after the shooting, about 20 people rushed into the World Gym across the street from Toys "R" Us.
The gym's assistant manager, Glenn Splain, tells The Associated Press that many of them were shaking and crying.
Splain said one witness though the incident began as a fight over a toy that got louder and louder before shots were fired.
Sarah Pacia of Cathedral City told The Desert Sun newspaper she was in the store with her two boys, ages four and six, looking at colouring books when she heard a commotion in the next aisle.
She thought it was people rushing to get a sale item. Then she heard three or four shots.
She said she froze, and store employees calmly escorted her out of the store.
"This is Toys "R" Us. There are kids shopping in there," Pacia said. Her son Jayden, 4, was clinging to her leg. He told her he didn't want to die, she said.
Toys "R" Us officials did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
Palm Desert is about 200 kilometres east of Los Angeles.
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