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WAUWATOSA - Wauwatosa Police confirmed Monday morning that a gunshot was fired during a disturbance at Mayfair Mall Sunday evening. Police closed Mayfair Mall a half hour early Sunday evening after large groups of young people caused a large disturbance at the mall.The disturbance started when several teenagers started looting inside Boston Store, witnesses said.A picture posted on JSOnline.com shows several clothing racks strewn across the floor. A witness tells the paper that stores started closing their security gates during the disturbance. "Someone was pounding on our door and saying, 'Please let me in. There's gunfire.' We unlocked the door and let him in. He was very frightened, he was very pale," said Elsa Mercado, who used her cell phone to call 911.Two hours after the mall closed, there were still crowds of teens in the area."Just trying to have fun," a teenage boy told TODAY'S TMJ4 reporter Lauren Leamanczyk.Police say the teenagers were disorderly and caused vandalism at the mall. Witnesses said teenagers continued causing problems after leaving Mayfair."They were at the bus stop and then they were running across the street toward BW'3's," one woman recounted. "And then at that time, they were jumping on cars and then almost playing like ditch it in the middle of the street with the cars."