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A police manhunt fanned out across central Florida on Monday after a makeshift bomb, possibly two, blew up outside the J.C. Penney in a small-town mall just as customers were finishing up their weekend shopping.
Physically, the device did not much more than knock some ceiling tiles loose and fill a service corridor with smoke. Psychologically, the attack Sunday was another matter entirely to Lake Wales, Fla., about 30 miles southwest of Orlando.
“We’re a family-oriented community; this is a family-oriented mall,” said deputy police chief Troy Schulze, whose son had been working at Eagle Ridge Mall during the explosion.
read more https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...all-town-florida-mall/?utm_term=.bd031cea2db6
Physically, the device did not much more than knock some ceiling tiles loose and fill a service corridor with smoke. Psychologically, the attack Sunday was another matter entirely to Lake Wales, Fla., about 30 miles southwest of Orlando.
“We’re a family-oriented community; this is a family-oriented mall,” said deputy police chief Troy Schulze, whose son had been working at Eagle Ridge Mall during the explosion.
read more https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...all-town-florida-mall/?utm_term=.bd031cea2db6