{"id":254996,"date":"2021-05-16T15:28:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T14:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/?p=254996"},"modified":"2021-05-16T15:28:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T14:28:54","slug":"miss-universe-ireland-star-brittany-mason-caught-in-mall-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/showbiz\/miss-universe-ireland-star-brittany-mason-caught-in-mall-shooting-254996","title":{"rendered":"Miss Universe Ireland star Brittany Mason caught in mall shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miss Universe Ireland star Brittany Mason has revealed she was caught in mall shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old model is chaperoning Irish contestant Nadia Sayers during this year&#8217;s beauty pageant, which takes place today.<\/p>\n<p>The former Miss USA contestant admitted she was &#8220;in shock&#8221; after getting caught in a shooting incident at Aventura Mall in Miami last week, which left three people injured.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Irish Sunday Mirror, Brittany said: \u201cI went to the mall to pick up some stuff for Nadia \u2013 I walked past Hugo Boss and was getting something to eat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of a sudden, three people were shot in front of me, it was like boom boom boom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-254999 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-2974.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-2974.jpg 750w, https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-2974-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-2974-399x420.jpg 399w, https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-2974-640x673.jpg 640w, https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-2974-681x716.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hundreds of people were running around, there was a stampede of people \u2013 I got out alive thank God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw some girls were jumping into a car \u2013 I was like, \u2018Please can I get into the car?\u2019 so I just jumped in with these girls. I was in shock, then I got to a friend\u2019s house, she made me dinner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went back to the mall the next day to get my car \u2013 I walked right by and it was scary where it happened but I\u2019m OK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s way too easy for people to access guns in America&#8230; I think there needs to be much stricter laws on how people access guns. Nobody needs one of those automatic weapons,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-254997 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-2976.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-2976.jpg 750w, https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-2976-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-2976-446x420.jpg 446w, https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-2976-640x603.jpg 640w, https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-2976-681x642.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>On this week\u2019s episode of The Gosscast,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/goss.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Goss.ie<\/a>\u00a0Founder and CEO Alexandra Ryan sits down with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/goss.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Goss.ie<\/a>\u00a0Editor Kendra Becker to chat about all the celeb couples who rekindled in their romances.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>To celebrate the reunion of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, the girls are taking a walk down memory lane, from discussing the \u201cbreak\u201d Prince William and Kate Middleton took to the drama that was Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Gosscast: Celebrity Couples Who Rekindled Their Romances\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K6kmcqmXrPU?feature=oembed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You can also listen to the podcast on all usual platforms, including \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/1vf83ZGq9GnJYDPhnfI2mb\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ie\/podcast\/gosscast\/id1441121491\">iTunes.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miss Universe Ireland boss admitted she was &#8220;in shock&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23760,"featured_media":254998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[5366],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG-2975.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23760"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}