Two security guards at a Target store in downtown Los Angeles were shot by a suspected shoplifter, leaving one of them in critical condition while the shooter remained at large Tuesday morning, police said.

Two security guards were shot and wounded at a downtown Los Angeles shopping area after they confronted a man trying to walk out of a store with a suitcase containing items he hadn’t paid for,.

A manhunt is underway for a shoplifting suspect who allegedly shot two security guards Monday evening inside a shopping mall in downtown Los Angeles. Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department responded to reports of the shooting in the 700 block of South Figueroa Street,