FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – A heavily armed man arrested at the Cross Creek Mall was actually a soldier who was planning to have photographs taken with the military equipment, according to Fayetteville Police.
25-year-old Bryan Scott Wolfinger now faces a charge of Going Armed to the Terror of the Public.
Fayetteville Police rushed to the mall at around 6:30 Thursday night, after several people called 911 to report a gunman at the shopping center. There were “multiple reports of a subject armed with an assault rifle walking through Macy’s,” according to a news release. Wolfinger was soon found and arrested in an entrance near the Macy’s wing.
Police tell WNCN News he was heavily armed. Wolfinger was wearing a military ballistic panel carrier, and had an AR-15 rifle with multiple ammunition magazines, according to officials.
Reports of a possible second gunman caused officers searched the entire mall, but officials determined Wolfinger “was acting alone.”
Wolfinger was processed at the Cumberland County Detention Center released to his superiors at Fort Bragg.
