Feb 27, 2015 1 min read

MONROEVILLE (AP) – A suburban Pittsburgh mall’s plan to ban minors who aren’t accompanied by adults on weekend evenings takes effect nearly three weeks after the shooting that prompted it.

Under the new policy, minors unaccompanied by a parent or guardian will be banned from most of the Monroeville Mall after 6 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.

Seventeen-year-old Tarod Thornhill, of Penn Hills, is jailed and faces a March 18 preliminary hearing for allegedly shooting a 20-year-old man and two bystanders during an argument in the mall’s Macy’s store on Feb. 7. All three have since been released from hospitals.

The youth escort policy that begins Friday evening won’t apply to department stores or others with exterior entrances, or the mall’s movie theaters.

Mall security officers will be checking IDs to ensure compliance.