An officer has died of injuries sustained in shooting at a South Carolina mall, and a suspect is in custody, police said.
Forest Acres police Chief Gene Sealy said at a news conference Wednesday that the Officer Greg Alia had died.
Police said the suspect is being questioned.
Officials say the incident at Richland Mall in Forest Acres, near Columbia, began with a call of a suspicious person just before 8 a.m. Sealy says officers responded and attempted to talk to the person, who fled on foot, running through the Barnes and Noble bookstore and other parts of the mall.
Sealy says Alia confronted the individual, there was a struggle, and he was shot.
Sealy says Alia was 32 years old and a seven-year veteran of the department. Sealy says Alia and wife Cassie recently had a baby.
