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A wild stabbing rampage in Taunton Tuesday night left at least three people dead, including the suspect, and two others injured.Click to watch News 9's coverageThe incident started after a man, who has not been identified by police, was involved in a crash on Myricks Street. Witnesses said that moments after the crash the man began to run around the neighborhood erratically, trying to break into nearby homes.Images from the scene"It was chaos," neighbor Doug Kinsman said.The suspect was able to force his way into a home, and sources told WCVB that he then used a kitchen knife to stab a mother and daughter inside.Neighbors said they watched in horror as the man ran back out of the home and fled the scene in a black car he stole."He was definitely not in the right state of mind," Kinsman said.Watch raw video from the sceneEmergency crews raced to the scene, and neighbors said they saw paramedics performing CPR on the older woman as she was rushed into a waiting ambulance.It's unknown which one of the stabbing victims lived at the Myricks Street home.A short time later, the suspect drove the stolen car into the front of the Macy's department store located at the Silver City Galleria.Customers said they heard a commotion and screaming before they began to run.Witness Reshma Noorani was in a fitting room inside Macy's when chaos erupted."I came out and I heard girls running and people screaming, 'There's a guy,'" she said. "We're used to guys entering the store, so we thought he must have had a gun. I ran with them. I was scared."Related: Witnesses describe tense moments during mall stabbingThe unidentified suspect then ran from the Macy's to a Bertucci's restaurant a few doors down."All of a sudden, he walked into Bertucci's and I saw him just start stabbing people," witness Emaly Higgings said. "And there was someone with a chair trying to throw it at (the suspect). There was an off-duty police officer there, and he actually shot him and kept him down."Higgings said the suspect appeared to be angry about something."He just went off," she said. "He was mad about something. We don't know what. He just started stabbing everybody. We just ran and ducked for our own safety." State police said all of the crime scenes have been secured, and Massachusetts State Police spokesman David Procopio said there was no threat to the public.