A 7-year-old girl was hospitalized after a shooting at a Baltimore mall

BALTIMORE (AP) – A 7-year-old girl was hospitalized Saturday after being shot at a Baltimore mall.

Baltimore police say the girl was shot Saturday afternoon at the Mondawmin Mall. According to the police, two groups in the shopping center had an argument, and an unidentified man shot and hit the girl in the upper body while running away.

The girl, who was with her mother at the mall, was not a victim, officials said.

Police said he was taken to a hospital with multiple gunshot wounds and was listed in critical but stable condition Saturday evening.

Authorities were searching for the suspect on Sunday.

In December, a man delivering packages at a mall was shot in the ankle when he got caught between two groups of people shooting at each other in the mall's parking lot.

Associated Press