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   From: michelle@michelle.org   
      
   Hostages Taken After Chandler Mall Shootout   
   CHANDLER, Ariz. -- A man involved in a shootout with police is reportedly   
   holding two hostages inside a Baja Fresh restaurant on the grounds of   
   Chandler Fashion Mall.   
      
      €	LIVESTREAM: Hostages Taken At Chandler Mall   
      
   A law enforcement official confirmed to CBS 5 News that the suspect was   
   holding two hostages in the restaurant after eluding police in the mall.   
      
   The suspect is believed to be the same man inadvertently released from a   
   Pinal County Jail after a Dec. 11 shootout with DPS officers.   
      
   Law officials were reporting that the hostages were taken after the suspect   
   was involved in a shootout with officers just after noon at the mall.   
      
   Sgt. Joe Favazzo of the Chandler Police Department said the mall at Loop   
   101 and Chandler Boulevard was in lock-down mode and occupants were being   
   evacuated. He urged people to stay away from the area. No law enforcement   
   personnel were reported injured.   
      
   Helicopter video showed police officers with guns drawn crouching in front   
   of a Baja Fresh restaurant at the mall. Chopper audio said more shots might   
   have been fired.   
      
   A law enforcement official told CBS 5 News the shooting involved Daniel   
   Munoz Perez, a Pinal County Jail inmate who was mistakenly released on $320   
   bond on Dec. 17. Perez is accused of shooting at Arizona Department of   
   Public Safety officers Dec. 11 outside a home in Casa Grande.   
      
   Calls of shots fired at the mall were heard on emergency scanners about   
   12:10 p.m. Wednesday. Police officers immediately began setting up a   
   perimeter around the mall.   
      
   A Chandler police spokesman said officers were investigating an armed   
   robbery that happened before noon near the mall. The suspects were spotted   
   near the mall and officers followed and confronted one suspect near the   
   loading dock at Sears. The suspect shot at police before running into the   
   mall, the spokesman said.   
      
   Perez, 25, was injured by gunfire in the shootout with DPS officers,   
   admitted to a Phoenix hospital for treatment and held in another county's   
   jail before being turned over to Pinal County.   
      
   But the Pinal County Sheriff's Office said it never received the charging   
   paperwork for Perez and he bonded out on the misdemeanor warrant.   
      
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