Mall video shows Cetin allegedly initially walked into the Cascade Mall in Burlington, Wash., Friday night unarmed.
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Washington State Patrol says that the shooting was in the makeup department of Macy’s. Officials gathered in the Skagit County chambers in Mt. Vernon, Wash., on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016.
“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.
Authorities have detained a 20-year-old man on suspicion of involvement in Friday’s shooting incident which killed five people at a Washington state mall.
Keith Leary says he was apprehended in Oak Harbor, 28 miles west of Burlington. The local police authorities said that the suspect, identified as Arcan Cetin, 20, has been taken into custody. The weapon was recovered but the suspect remained at large early Saturday.
Authorities say a fifth person has died following a shooting at a shopping mall north of Seattle.
Law enforcement officers work at the crime scene outside of Cascade Mall in Burlington, Wash., where several people were fatally shot on September 23, 2016.
She said he could see police at the doors with assault rifles and said they were no longer guarding the doors as of 9:30 p.m. Authorities offered no information about a possible motive for the attack. His motive is still unknown.
A gunman opened fire at the Cascade Mall in Burlington on Friday night, killing three women, a man and a girl, before fleeing. The youngest female victim was a teenager, law enforcement officials said Saturday morning.
The bodies were removed from the mall Saturday and are in the possession of the Skagit County Coroner’s Office.
The first emergency call came in just before 7pm on a busy Friday night at the Cascade Mall: A man with a rifle was shooting at people in the Macy’s department store.
“After the shooting, police and rescue workers worked their way through the mall, clearing stores and evacuating shoppers, some of whom locked themselves in dressing rooms”.
The attack was the seventh time this year in which at least four people were killed in a shooting in Washington, according to The Seattle Times.
Cammock confirmed that Cetin is a legal permanent resident of the US who had immigrated from Turkey.
Anxious residents fear for their safety as authorities search for a gunman who killed five people at a mall in Washington state.
Cetin’s family, who immigrated from Turkey when Cetin was a child, was said to be cooperating with authorities.
The suspect was unarmed, said the officer, and was carrying a computer and some personal items in a bag.
Cetin is scheduled to appear in court on Monday.
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Residents gathered on Saturday to comfort each other at a community event in a park in the city, situated roughly 60 miles north of Seattle.
