Man fires shots in parking lot of shopping mall in Newport Beach

(CNN) -- A man stood in the parking lot of a shopping mall in Southern California and fired 50 shots into the air. Police didn't say why, but his actions prompted many stores in the open-air Fashion Island mall in Newport Beach to lock their doors on Saturday, December 15th.

No one was hurt by the bullets raining down, but one person suffered minor injuries while trying to flee the area, police said.

Newport Beach Police quickly took the man, 42-year-old Marcos Sarinana Gurrola, into custody, but not before calling in the bomb squad when the man said he had more ammunition in the trunk of his car.

The incident Saturday came a day after a mass shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut, and last week's fatal shooting at a mall in Oregon.

Patrick Wyrick was returning to his car when he heard the shots and, from behind the safety of his car, began capturing the scene with camera.

"I wasn't sure they were real or not. Then a heard another set of shots and then another," he said in a video he posted on YouTube.

"My wife and daughter were at an ice cream shop in the mall when the shooting happened. They ended up running and screaming with everyone toward the opposite side of the mall."

Other shoppers began tweeting. Among them was Emily Altieri, who was inside a department store when the shooting began.

"There is a shooting at fashion island and I'm trapped in a department store. This is scary," she tweeted.