Police officer shoots a man at The Falls. Cops say he had a knife made to look like a gun

A Miami-Dade County police officer shot a man at The Falls shopping mall in Kendall Friday night who law enforcement says was armed with a knife that was designed to look like a gun.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue medics arrived at the scene at 8:49 p.m., according to a dispatch supervisor, and took the man to Jackson South Medical at 9:03 p.m.

Detective Alvaro Zabaleta said Macy’s employees called the police to report a shoplifting incident. When officers arrived at 8:22 p.m., the man was still there. Employees pointed him out to officers, Zabaleta said.

Officers tried to detain him and he pulled out “what appeared to be a gun,” Zabaleta said. That’s when the officer shot him, police say.

The man, who police have not identified, is in “critical, but stable condition,” Zabaleta said. The officer was not injured.

This is the second mall shooting in South Florida in less than a week. Last Saturday, five people were wounded in a shooting at the Aventura Mall after an argument between two groups of people turned violent.

This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.

The story originally reported the officer involved in the shooting was off-duty. The officer was on-duty and responding to the incident.