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Colleagues and others who knew Moore told the Washington Post that he often walked alone around the Gadsden Mall.
The mall opened to great fanfare in 1974, anchored by department stores like Pizitz, Belk Hudson and Sears. It had a movie theater, lounge, drug store and restaurants including Morrison's Cafeteria.
It soon became a popular local hangout, especially for teenagers.
Wendy Miller told The Post that she was 14 and working as Santa's helper at the Gadsden Mall in 1977 when Moore first spoke with her and told her she looked pretty. Two years later, when she was 16, he asked her out on dates, although her mother wouldn't let her go.
Usry, who was a teenager at the time, remembers seeing Moore at the mall often.
"He would go and flirt with all the young girls," he said. "It'd seem like every Friday or Saturday night (you'd see him) walking around the mall, like the kids did."
Jason Nelms, who now lives in Tennessee but grew up in nearby Southside, was a regular at the mall when he was a teenager.
He recalled being told by a mall employee that they kept watch for an older guy who was known to pick up younger girls.
Nelms said he was told later by a concession worker at the mall that it was Roy Moore.