A suspected gunman believed to have killed five people at a Washington state mall was arrested Saturday, according to authorities.
At a news conference, officials said they had not ruled out any possible motives for why 20-year-old Arcan Cetin allegedly shot four women and one man at the Cascade Mall in Burlington Friday evening.
Island County Sheriff’s Lt. Mike Hawley told reporters that he spotted Cetin near the suspect’s home in Oak Harbor, around 30 miles due west of the mall. Hawley said he immediately recognized Cetin as the suspect, turned his patrol car around and arrested Cetin without incident.
“He said nothing,” said Hawley, who added that Cetin was unarmed and carrying a computer in a satchel when he was apprehended. “He was kind of zombie-like.”
Mount Vernon Police Lt. Chris Cammock said Cetin had immigrated to the U.S. from Turkey and was a “legal permanent resident.” It was not immediately clear when Cetin came to the U.S.
Hawley said Cetin had been arrested for simple assault last year, but provided no further details on the case. The Seattle Times reported that Cetin faced three domestic violence assault charges in both Burlington and Island County, with the victim identified as Cetin’s stepfather. The newspaper reports Cetin also was arrested for drunken driving.
Court records show Cetin was told by a judge on Dec. 29 that he was not to possess a firearm, the newspaper reported.
However, the stepfather urged the judge not to impose a no-contact order, saying his stepson was “going through a hard time.”
Cetin was arrested almost exactly 24 hours after his alleged victims were shot at the mall Macy’s makeup counter. The four female victims died in the store. The male victim died early Saturday as police finished sweeping the 434,000-square-foot building.
Local media outlets had identified the victims as of early Sunday. One was 16-year-old Sarai Lara, a cancer survivor and high school sophomore. Her mother, Evangelina, told the Seattle Times that through a translator that she was shopping with Sarai and her younger sister, but they split up.
She said Sarai went to Macy’s looking for pants. News of the shooting spread through the mall, and Lara tried to get to her daughter but was unable to do so.
KIRO-TV identified two more victims as Belinda Galde, 64, and her mother, 95-year-old Beatrice Dotson.
The Seattle Times identified the other two victims as Macy’s makeup artist Shyla Martin, 52, and Chuck Eagan, a Boeing maintenance worker who was shot while helping his wife flee the store.
“There are people waking up this morning, and their world has changed forever. The city of Burlington has probably changed forever, but I don’t think our way of life needs to change,” Burlington Mayor Steve Sexton said earlier Saturday. “This was a senseless act. It was the world knocking on our doorstep, and it came into our little community.”
Surveillance video captured the suspect entering the mall unarmed and then recorded him about 10 minutes later entering the Macy’s with a “hunting type” rifle in his hand, Cammock said. The lieutenant said late Saturday that the rifle was apparently brought into the mall from a suspect vehicle. The weapon was recovered at the scene.
“Probably one of the most difficult moments for us last night was knowing that there were family members wondering about their loved ones in there,” Cammock said.
Burlington, a community of 8,600 people, is about 65 miles north of Seattle, too far to be a commuter town, but its population swells to 55,000 during the day because of a popular outlet mall, retail stores and other businesses. Burlington is the only major retail center within 30 miles in a region where agriculture is king, said Linda Jones, president of the Burlington Chamber of Commerce.
Residents gathered Saturday to comfort each other at a community gathering in a city park.
“It’s too scary. It’s too close to home,” said Maria Elena Vasquez, who attended the gathering with her husband and two young children.
Joanne Burkholder, 19, of Mount Vernon, was watching the movie “The Magnificent Seven” in the mall’s theater when security guards came in and told them to evacuate immediately. Dozens of panicked moviegoers gathered in the hallway, and Burkholder heard screaming as the officers escorted them to safety in a parking lot.
As she drove home later, she had to pull over because she was shaking so hard, she told The Associated Press.
“I’m just very thankful for my life this morning. I’ve never been so terrified in my life,” she said Saturday, trying to hold back tears as she attended the community vigil.
“You’d think it would happen in Everett or Seattle, but a small town of Burlington, I’d never dream something like this would happen.”
People who believed they may have lost loved ones were being sequestered at a church three blocks from the mall, where counselors and a golden retriever therapy dog were present.
Dozens of people attended a Saturday evening prayer service for the victims. The gathering was held at Central United Methodist Church in nearby Sedro-Woolley, Wash.
The Rev. Cody Natland lit five candles on a table in front of the church, one for each victim.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/25/suspect-in-washington-state-mall-shooting-in-custody.html
http://freedomdaily.com/cascade-mall-shooter-idd-devout-muslim-proud-supporter-presidential-candidate/?utm_source=Freedom+Daily&utm_campaign=7e07c20666-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_070cd28027-7e07c20666-151362081
You really should avoid the Muslim bashing sites, Tess.
The stinking jews run them. 😉
“He walked in unarmed…believe weapon came from a suspect vehicle.”
So who planted the weapon??
the 3 videos i have seen show him w a bag, and w/o a bag, like he hid it somewhere, i just thought, maybe in the bathroom at Macys? I questioned when he was walking by a rack of clothes armed, NO one saw him? We have a Macys and the Cosmetics is near the front door of store. another false flag and innocents died
Hold on here…
The shooter lives 30 miles from the mall? How did he get to the mall and how did he get back ‘near the suspect’s home’? How did the police know who he was and where he lived so fast? Especially when they said they were looking for a hispanic man!
WHAT???
Island County Sheriff’s Lt. Mike Hawley told reporters that he spotted Cetin near the suspect’s home in Oak Harbor, around 30 miles due west of the mall. Hawley said he immediately recognized Cetin as the suspect, turned his patrol car around and arrested Cetin without incident.
“He said nothing,” said Hawley, who added that Cetin was unarmed and carrying a computer in a satchel when he was apprehended. “He was kind of zombie-like.”
How much you want to bet they tell us that the computer has all kinds of jihadi rhetoric and a manifesto as well. They have already shown us he put pictures of himself with guns on social media….sound familiar?
This stinks to high heaven as a gov’t op.
Well whadaya know… they already have his life history up…
http://www.kiro7.com/web/kiro/news/local/what-to-know-about-the-burlington-wash-mall-/449647977#
Yeah. Gee, it’s almost like they had some sort of script or memo beforehand.
Sounds like one of them there tinfoil hat CONSPIRACY THEORIES to me, bub. I wouldn’t go spreading it around if I were you.
People might think you’re 5150 or something… 🙄
A list of the ‘departed’ (so we’re told).
One was a probation officer.
http://www.kiro7.com/web/kiro/special/housing/remembering-the-5-people-killed-in-burlington-wash-mall-shooting/449887114#
AND he was all this…
“A neighbor and high school acquaintance of the suspect in the deadly Washington state mall shooting says he was “creepy, rude and obnoxious.”
http://www.kiro7.com/news/local/the-latest-authorities-search-wash-mall-shooting-suspects-apartment/450181682#
Starting to sound like another circus act.
We’ll see.
lol. Yep. The three ring is in full swing.
“He said nothing,” said Hawley, who added that Cetin was unarmed and carrying a computer in a satchel when he was apprehended. “He was kind of zombie-like.”
Oh boy, another James Holmes/Zombie like shooter. Ain’t that a cowinkydink.
Unfrigginbelievable……
Yet another ridiculous false flag distraction.
Like I said before, these false flag stories are boring the hell out of me. Same shit, different day. It’s not even interesting anymore.
Speaking of ‘the joker’ James Holmes, it seems he has ‘disappeared’, and they aren’t telling us where he went…its a secret.
http://www.newsweek.com/aurora-shooter-james-holmes-secretly-moved-after-prison-assault-433501
He disappeared alright…either into a 6 foot hole in the ground or he’s on a beach in tahiti sucking down margaritas under a new name for his part in that gov’t staged shooting in aurora.
I think his name is Patsy and he has an imaginary friend named MK.
“Court records show Cetin was told by a judge on Dec. 29 that he was not to possess a firearm, the newspaper reported.”
OK MOMMY AND DADDY. IF YOU SAY SO.
he should have shot the judge and every commie in the room.
I hope a court judge never tells me I cant wipe my own ass or that I must stop breathing… OH WAIT. I DO hope they do that.
Lets just keep talking about it.
oh and any c$nt with google maps can show burlington is north east of oak harbor.
and oak harbor is on whidbey island.
i learned electronic shit there nearly 18 years ago.
god! I cant even read one stupid article without my intelligence being insulted by retarded peoples lack of detail.
Either my IQ is going higher or the rest of this damned cuntree and its minions are getting so stupid it keeps making the average score well over 200.
Whats next? someone will wait with baited breath for the debates while spouting off about those poor kids in newtown CT or the planes hitting the buildings in NY? oh wait. that was yesterday. I feels sorry for her but at least I know now why here kids are f-in retards. Like dumb and stupid all at the same time.
if you have hate in your heart, let it out.
Yes, my friend, I have hate. I hate the liars and all the destruction they cause. Strangely, it seems a rare thing these days for anyone to respect or cherish the truth, or to step up and question the lies that have been deliberately thrown in our faces to test the sheoples’ ambivelance and numbness to reality. But, as Robert the Bruce said in the movie Braveheart: “My Hate Dies with You (them, not you, friend).
“No King, But King Jesus”
Definitely a guibermint psy-op.
This is getting to be too obvious to ignore, or to defend. Even the stupid people I know are beginning to comprehend the level of stooge here. Hey Moe! Hey Larry! …..woo woo woo woo woo woooo!