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The shooter headed north on Interstate 5 after the attack, Francis said.
It was confirmed at 2am on Saturday that Sarai was among the five people killed. “This is a senseless act. It was the world knocking on our doorstep and it came into our little community”.
The suspect was last seen walking toward a local highway from the mall before police arrived, Francis said on Twitter. A massive manhunt continued and police broadcast a plea for tips. The FBI was assisting local authorities, but it said there was no evidence to point to terrorism. The gunman was originally described as a 20-something Hispanic man, who was wearing all black.
The death toll now stands at five in the mass shooting at a Burlington, Washington, mall after a critically wounded person died, the state police reported on Saturday. The weapon was recovered at the scene.
The man’s identity and other details about the arrest were not immediately available.
“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.
Earlier Saturday as police scrambled to find the shooter, the small city about 60 miles (97 kilometers) waited and anxious.
KIRO reported that the man was arrested in Oak Harbor, which is about 30 miles away from Burlington. He is now being held at Skagit County Jail. She said “it’s nerve-wracking” and she’s nervous about taking her 7-year-old daughter to her soccer game.
“I literally hit my brakes, did a quick turn, I jumped out”, Hawley said.
A half hour into the worst mass shooting in modern US history, the gunman called a 911 operator and claimed responsibility for the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando.
“We have never been so scared in our lives”, the woman texted the station.
“He was trying to go to the mall and people were screaming”, she told The Associated Press.
“Then I heard seven or eight more, and I just stayed quiet in the dressing room because it just didn’t feel right”, Caswell told the Skagit Valley Herald. He said everyone was terrified.
Noel Cuevas says he was eating dinner with his family at a Washington state mall when a gunman opened fire, killing five people. Authorities later identified the attacker as Dahir Adan, 20, a former part-time employee of Securitas Security Services who resigned in June. He and his son, Kai, 16, left just before the mall was locked down, he said, adding that four of Kai’s friends were stuck inside after the mall was locked down.
Red Cross counselors and a golden retriever therapy dog were on hand Saturday at His Place Community Church in Burlington, Washington.
The evening gathering was held at Central United Methodist Church in Sedro-Woolley, Washington.
The Cascade Mall will be closed Sunday as well, but expect to resume normal hours Monday.
Four women and one man were killed, police said in an updated toll.
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“It all happened so fast”, said Zavala, who found his wife inside a fitting room.
