Garden State Plaza gunman surveillance video released

PARAMUS, N.J.

You see a group of shoppers jump at the sound of gunfire as they obviously don't know yet that that's what it was.

They step outside a store to see and immediately run back in, ahead of another young man who looks down the hallway and immediately sees the threat.

Richard Shoop dressed in black and has a motorcycle helmet on.

Cameras across the mall captured his walk and shoppers and employees running, when Shoop comes into their sights.

Cameras show him calmly, assault rifle in hand coming from the elevator.

At the same time cells phones are ringing 911 off the hook.

Hundreds of officers from across the region are racing to the scene..

As we see people inside run for their lives. Employees, work as fast has he could to put his store on lockdown.

Shoop had left a suicide note and he killed himself in a lower level area of the mall and hurt no one else.

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