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A fight inside the Oaks Mall on Ven­tu­ra, CA on Sat­ur­day evening result­ed in 16 patrol units respond­ing to the loca­tion in response to 911 calls of shots being fired inside the shop­ping cen­ter, which turned out to be false. Deputies were ini­tial­ly sent to a call of a bran­dish­ing after a caller report­ed see­ing a man point­ing a gun inside the mall. Callers report­ed four to five peo­ple engag­ing in a fight. 

Three men began fight­ing with each oth­er after two of them con­front­ed the third man because he was not wear­ing a face mask inside the mall. As the melee became increas­ing­ly vio­lent, an off-duty law enforce­ment offi­cer iden­ti­fied him­self and con­front­ed the men with his hand­gun to stop the fight.