RIGHT NOW. PANIC INSIDE A BUSY NORTHERN VIRGINIA MALL THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND. WITNESSES TELL FOX 5 PEOPLE STARTED RUNNING AFTER HEARING A LOUD CRASHES AROUND 330 THIS AFTERNOON AT FASHION CENTER AT PENTAGON CITY. FOX FIVE'S DAVID KAPLAN IS LIVE OUTSIDE THE MALL. AND DAVID, WHAT DETAILS HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO GATHER SO FAR? >> YEAH. CIERRA, GOOD EVENING TO YOU. DESPITE THE LOUD CRASHES THAT PEOPLE SAID THEY HEARD, ARLINGTON COUNTY POLICE HAS STRESSED THAT NO SHOTS WERE FIRED. THAT IS THEIR BELIEF AT THIS TIME. INSTEAD IT WAS A ROBBERY. POLICE SAY THREE YOUNG MEN WEARING ALL BLACK USED HAMMERS TO BREAK A GLASS DISPLAY IN A STORE INSIDE THE MALL AND ALSO USED FIRE EXTINGUISHERS AS PART OF ALL OF THIS. IT WAS THAT BROKEN GLASS THAT CAUSED THE PANIC. THE MALL WE'RE TOLD, CLOSES AT SIX. SO PEOPLE HAVE SORT OF BEEN FILING OUT THROUGH THE DURATION OF THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR SCREEN RIGHT NOW. FOX 5 HAS OBTAINED THESE IMAGES SHOWING TWO SMALL HAMMERS LYING ON THE GROUND INSIDE THE MALL. THEN OTHER PICTURES SHOWING EVIDENCE OF THE DISCHARGED FIRE EXTINGUISHER OUTSIDE THE STORE. THIS HAPPENED AROUND 330 WHEN FOX 5 GOT TO THE SCENE. WE COULD STILL SEE A LARGE ARLINGTON COUNTY POLICE PRESENCE AROUND THE MALL. WE WERE TOLD THE MALL ITSELF REMAINED OPEN UNTIL SIX, BUT WE KNOW SOME INDIVIDUAL STORES CHOSE TO CLOSE. FOX 5 SPEAKING WITH A STORE EMPLOYEE AS WELL AS A SHOPPER. >> THE STORE WAS PRETTY BUSY, SO I WAS LIKE WATCHING THE FRONT. AND NEXT THING YOU KNOW, I JUST LIKE I HEARD, I HEARD THE NOISE LIKE IT WAS LOUD, BUT I DIDN'T REACT LIKE I DIDN'T THINK ANYTHING OF IT. AND I HEARD IT AGAIN. AND THEN I SAW PEOPLE RUNNING, LIKE THROUGH THE MALL HALLWAYS. AND THEN I WAS LIKE, GOT ON THE MIC TO MY MANAGER, LIKE, I THINK SOMETHING'S GOING ON. >> WE ALL KIND OF RAN TO THE DRESSING ROOMS, AND THEN THEY BROUGHT US TO THE BACK ROOM OF THE STORE, AND SOMEONE SAID THAT THERE WERE THREE GUYS AND THERE WAS A SLEDGEHAMMER INVOLVED, AND HE WAS SPRAYING PEOPLE WITH, FIRE EXTINGUISHER. >> THAT LAST SHOPPER THAT YOU HEARD FROM SAYS THAT SHE SHELTERED IN PLACE FOR JUST UNDER AN HOUR AS POLICE RESPONDED TO THIS. AS OF NOW, THREE PEOPLE ARE BEING SEARCHED FOR BY POLICE. NONE OF THEM HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AT THIS TIME. SHOPPERS. I TALKED TO SAID THEY WERE THANKFUL THAT NO ONE WAS HURT.