A gunman opened fire at a Wisconsin spa today, injuring at least seven people.
The area is on lockdown as authorities in Brookfield, Wisc., work to secure the scene, which is across the street from a shopping mall.
The suspect remains at large and authorities believe they know who is responsible for the carnage. It was unclear whether he fled the scene or could be inside the Azana Salon & Day Spa, where the shooting occurred.
SWAT teams have surrounded the spa with their guns drawn, preparing for a tactical situation, ABC News' affiliate WISN reported. Hostage negotiators are also on the scene, however there has been no confirmation this is a hostage situation.
At least four people were treated with non-critical injuries, while three more were en route to Froedert Hospital, WISN reported.
Multiple roads and businesses in the area are on lockdown until the scene has been secured.
Christopher Pfeiffer, 47, said he saw a young girl hysterically running through the parking lot at Brookfield Square Mall.
"She was screaming, yelling, crying hysterical. She was pleading for help," Pfeiffer told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. "She kept saying, 'My mother was shot.' And she mentioned that there was a gunman. She ran into the bookstore."
This is not the first time a violent shooting has rocked the community.
On Aug. 5, Wade Michael Page, an Army veteran and white supremacist, killed six people and injured three others before fatally shooting himself at a Sikh temple south of Milwaukee.
In 2005, less than a mile away, a gunman killed seven people and wounded four more at a church service at the Sheraton Hotel. Terry Michael Ratzmann, the 44-year-old gunman, then committed suicide.
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