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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: SVPete on September 24, 2016, 06:21:53 AM
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Death Toll in Seattle-Area Mall Shooting Rises to 5, Gunman at Large (http://abcnews.go.com/US/report-active-shooter-mall-burlington-washington/story?id=42321253)
By DAVID CAPLAN
Sep 24, 2016, 6:36 AM ET
A gunman armed with a rifle remained at large Saturday morning after four women and a man were fatally shot Friday night at a shopping mall about 65 miles north of Seattle, Washington State Patrol said.
The victims were shot in the makeup department at Macy's at Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington, before 7 p.m. local time, police said.
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Francis described the "one lone shooter" as a "Hispanic male wearing grey," who was last seen walking toward Interstate 5. His motive is unknown.
A helicopter, search teams and K-9 units scoured the area around the mall for the suspect.
Sgt. Francis tweeted a photo of the suspect, writing "Here is the shooter. We believe just one shooter ... Armed with rifle."
The somewhat blurry pic is embedded just after where my quote ends. Looks like the local PD has tried to get fairly accurate info out early. The article I saw on PJMedia (https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2016/09/23/breaking-mass-mall-shooting-in-burlington-washington-shooter-still-at-large/), a collection of social media posts from local media and police, mentions a witness who said the shooter called out one of the victims by name. Sounds like the motive, if that word is appropriate, was personal.
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They've apprehended the suspect, no word on his identity so far...the reticence to release that crucial bit of info most likely means he is either really a Hispanic, but an 'Undocumented' one, or he's a Mid-Eastern gentleman of some variety belonging to a certain well-known religious group that celebrates a Friday Sabbbath.
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A light-skinned Hispanic, a dark-haired Italian, a Greek, and many ME men are going to look reasonably similar, so I took the description "Hispanic" with a grain of salt. The suspect is in custody (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/25/suspect-in-washington-state-mall-shooting-in-custody.html) and is Turkish (has been in the US for several years).
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According to a report on Drudge from the Telegraph, he tweeted In January of 2015:
We win I vote for Hillary Clinton which, apparently, was his only political reference.
In other words, lurking DUmmies, he's one of yours.
:ownit:
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(http://i65.tinypic.com/5pjrqg.jpg)
(http://i67.tinypic.com/15p0ux2.jpg)
Israeli national news provided the above picture and said that he was a Turkish immigrant with a history of violence.
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That doesn't look like the rifle he used in the surveillance video--that one appeared to have a wooden (brown) stock-- it almost looked as if it was an M1 Carbine.
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That doesn't look like the rifle he used in the surveillance video--that one appeared to have a wooden (brown) stock-- it almost looked as if it was an M1 Carbine.
It appears to be a Saiga 12 gauge.
(https://www.slickguns.com/sites/default/files/saiga12_basic_1_med.jpg)
I can't tell what he was carrying in the surveillance footage, but it isn't a Saiga.
(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160924061803-washington-mall-shooting-schneider-newday-dnt-00003012-large-169.jpg)