Cetin has a criminal record that includes three assault charges related to domestic violence, his stepfather being the victim, the Seattle Times reported.
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Mark Francis said Sunday morning in addition to going through the Oak Harbor residence tied to 20-year-old Arcan Cetin investigators are searching his vehicle.
Authorities say the gunman initially entered the Cascade Mall in nearby Burlington, Washington, without a weapon shortly before 7 p.m. Friday.
Cetin also appeared to have blogs on the site Tumblr that had not been updated in many months.
After Cetin fled the mall Friday night, authorities embarked on a manhunt that lasted almost 24-hours, authorities said. Four women died on the scene, while the male victim died later in the hospital. Officials, including Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, left, gathered in the Skagit County chambers in Mt. Vernon, Wash. Investigators also interrogated the 20-year-old suspect.
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, but they split up.
Bartiromo: There was a Washington mall shooter. Its population is about 8,500 – 62 percent white, 29 percent Hispanic – and the median household income is significantly lower than the state average.
Sarai Lara, 16, was a student at Mount Vernon High School.
“There are people waking up this morning, and their world has changed forever”, Burlington Mayor Steve Sexton said at a news conference. “This was a senseless act”.
Sexton said he was aching for the moment when authorities “bring this son of a b– to justice”.
Police did not confirm that account. His family is cooperating with police, officials said. “He’s devastated”, Garcia said of his friend. “I have dealt with Belinda hundreds of times and found her to be a warm and kind individual”, he wrote.
Police have said they believe Cetin acted alone, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation said it had no indication that the shooting was linked to terrorism. The granddaughter of a member of one of those churches was working at a beauty salon in the mall.
She says Sarai went to Macy’s looking for trousers. When police arrived to let them out, several patrons fled with rollers and other products in their hair. They escorted shoppers and workers who had sheltered in place outside. The victims ranged from Lara to a 52-year-old Macy’s employee to a 95-year-old woman at the mall with her daughter. “And even then he was sexually harassing my friends and I. What the f**k”. “And it got very quiet”.
“Out of nowhere I just hear somebody yell, and then after that, I turn around and just look at the Macy’s and I just hear shots”, Patino told the station. Some people didn’t know where to go.
“I just moved them into the (T-Mobile) store”, Patino said. “We both jumped out with our guns, and he just froze”. He went into the store’s makeup area and opened fire.
Police are still trying to determine a motive in the shooting.
“I don’t know what his motivation was”, Cammock said. “It would be speculation”.
More than 200 officers from more than two dozen agencies responded and painstaking searched the over 400,000-square-foot mall.
“Probably one of the most hard moments for us last night was knowing that there were family members wondering about their loved ones in there”, Cammock said.
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Authorities, still uncertain on where he got the weapon, collected evidence from the mall overnight Friday and all day Saturday.
