AP: A man was arrested after firing about 50 shots in the parking lot of a SouthernCalifornia shopping mall, prompting a lockdown of storescrowded with holiday shoppers.       

Marcos Gurrola, 42, of Garden Grove was taken into custodyby bicycle police officers patrolling around the open-airFashion Island mall around 4:30 p.m. yesterday, policespokeswoman Cathy Lowe said. She said he fired into the airand onto the ground in the parking lot near a Macy'sdepartment store.        No one was injured, but the gunfire caused panic, coming aday after a gunman killed 26 children and adults at a Connecticut elementary school, and days after a deadly mallshooting in Oregon.       

The mall was crowded with holiday shoppers and the parkinglot was full. Witnesses said they ran, screaming and duckingfor cover.       

"It's a miracle nobody got injured," said Sven Maric, whosaid he was celebrating his wife's birthday at a restaurantpatio about 40 meters away. "The bullets had