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U.S. NEWS Monday 16 deceMber 2019
Two Georgia

teenagers arrested in

weekend mall shooting

ATLANTA (AP) — Two teen- The shooting happened
agers were arrested in con- Saturday around 1 p.m.
nection with a shooting and sent shoppers scram-
that wounded one man bling at the sound of gun-
in a busy suburban Atlan- fire that police said began
ta mall food court at the with a verbal dispute.
height of Christmas shop- Officials said 18-year-old
ping season, police said Ethan Green was shot in the Bystanders wait outside as authorities investigate an incident at
Sunday. neck and shoulder area Cumberland Mall in Smyrna, Ga., on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019.
The Cobb County Police and was taken to the hos- Associated Press
Department said surveil- pital for treatment of what pers reported that store Saturday afternoon follow-
lance footage and in- they described as “non- employees in some cases ing the shooting, but later
terviews helped identify life threatening injuries.” told them to hide in stock- reopened.
the suspects as 18-year- The Cobb County Police rooms. Police, upon arriv- Cumberland Mall, in sub-
old Zaire Dhanoolal and Department said 21-year- ing, evacuated people urban Cobb County, has
19-year-old Joweer Ponce, old Anthony Ezell wasn’t who were found hiding. more than 1 million square
both from Marietta. Dha- injured during the shoot- Police said in statements feet (92,000 square meters)
noolal was charged with ing, but was considered a that the shooting was “an of retail space. It’s in a busy
two counts of aggravated victim of aggravated as- isolated incident,” calling it suburban business district,
assault, while Ponce was sault because a weapon a dispute between people near where major league
charged with reckless con- was pointed at him before who knew each other. The baseball’s Atlanta Braves
duct and carrying a con- Green was shot. mall was closed for a time play in their new stadium.q
cealed weapon without a It wasn’t immediately
permit, according to the clear if either Dhanoolal or
law enforcement state- Ponce had a lawyer.
ment. Videos posted online
Both suspects were being showed people with shop-
held at the Cobb County ping bags running in all
Adult Detention Center, directions from the food
and county police said court after the shooting,
they were still investigating with some hiding under
the mall shooting. counters and tables. Shop-

Canadian couple gets

$9 million jury verdict

in bike wreck

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A jury has awarded more
than $9 million in damages to a man and woman
from Vancouver, British Columbia, who were struck
by an 18-wheeler truck while riding their bikes along
Interstate 84 in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon.
The eight-member jury found Exel Inc. — more com-
monly known as the shipping company DHL — liable
for the Aug. 3, 2016, collision late Friday after a five-
day trial in U.S. District Court in Portland.
It awarded $1.3 million in economic damages, $4 mil-
lion in non-economic damages and $4 million in puni-
tive damages to Eric Moutal, whose lower left leg was
nearly amputated, and $400,000 in non-economic
damages to his now wife, Andrea Newman, The Or-
egonian/OregonLive reported.
Moutal, who was 31 at the time, and Newman, then
25, were vacationing in Oregon, camping and biking
in the Columbia River Gorge before a planned visit
to Portland.
The two had been biking along the Historic Columbia
River Highway but rode a stretch along the interstate
in order to return to their campground.
Under Oregon law, it’s legal to bike on the shoul-
der of most freeways, except for a handful of urban
freeways where the Oregon Department of Trans-
portation has expressly prohibited it in Portland and
Medford.q