Lt. Chris Cammock with the Mount Vernon Police Department said police received numerous tips Friday night and Saturday.
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Although police initially said Cetin was Hispanic, Lt. Cammoc said, “He immigrated from Turkey but he is a a legal permanent resident of the United States.we will be asking [federal authorities] to look deeper into immigration issues”.
Washington State Patrol Sergeant Mark Francis briefs reporters after the Cascade Mall shooting.
Authorities announced earlier that the suspect had been apprehended Saturday evening.
The rifle was later recovered at the mall, said Cammock, who is commander of the Skagit County Multi-Agency Response Team.
Turkish-born man suspected of shooting five people dead, including a teenaged cancer survivor, at a shopping mall in the USA state of Washington.
An FBI spokesman said on Saturday that although the bureau could not rule out terrorism as a motive for the shooting, there was no evidence to suggest that it was.
Reports from the scene said multiple SWAT teams were in and around the mall, which is popular with shoppers from British Columbia.
Local broadcaster K5 said the suspect had been in possession of three guns on Friday night when the shooting took place at the Cascade Mall in Burlington in the USA state of Washington.
He made his escape and was seen walking to a nearby interstate.
Law enforcement officials work under a tent, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016, outside the Cascade Mall in Burlington, Wash.
The 39-year-old Cuevas later returned to Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington, to retrieve his truck parked near a cordoned off area.
The suspect’s arrest capped a frantic search following the slayings of five people the day before. The shooting comes less than a week after a man stabbed nine people at a mall in the central Minnesota city of St. Cloud before being shot dead by an off-duty police officer.
In all, he spent just 10 minutes in the mall.
Evangelina Lara told ( http://bit.ly/2cWhxJY ) the newspaper through a translator that she was shopping Friday night at the Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington, with Sarai and her younger sister.
Prosecutors have not charged Cetin in the shooting.
Washington State Patrol Sgt. Mark Francis said via Twitter that Cetin was a resident of Oak Harbor, Washington.
Online records show Cetin was arrested last June for a misdemeanor assault. Cetin was carrying a satchel with a computer inside and was in a “zombielike” state when he was taken into custody, the lieutenant said. Hawley said Cetin was unarmed: “He said nothing”.
A Facebook page that appeared to belong to Cetin – and which has since been taken down – said he was born in the southern Turkish city of Adana.
The motive for the shooting in the cosmetics section of a Macy’s department store is unknown.
Beatrice was 95 years old.
Burlington Mayor Steve Sexton called the shooting a “devastating loss” of five treasured members of the small community.
The identities of the victims – the man and four women who ranged in age from a teenager to a senior citizen – were withheld pending autopsies and notification of family.
“Someone ran by and said, “There’s an active shooter in the mall” and told us to lock our gate”, Doc Barron, who had been teaching a boxing class at the mall, told the Skagit Valley Herald.
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The youngest victim was named as Sarai Lara, 16, who survived cancer as a young girl.
