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Police searched Saturday for a gunman authorities said opened fire in
the makeup department of a Macy's store at a mall north of Seattle,
killing four females and one man, before fleeing toward an interstate on
foot.
People fled, customers hid in dressing rooms and employees
locked the doors of nearby stores after gunshots rang out just after 7
p.m. Friday at the Cascade Mall. A helicopter, search teams and K-9
units scoured the area for a rifle-carrying man.
"We are still actively looking for the shooter," Washington State
Patrol spokesman Sgt. Mark Francis said at a news conference. "Stay
indoors, stay secure."
Francis
said police were seeking a Hispanic man wearing black and armed with a
"hunting-type" rifle last seen walking toward Interstate 5.
Authorities say the motive was unknown for the shooting about 60 miles north of Seattle.
The
FBI was assisting local authorities as dozens of police officers
searched for the suspect. The FBI's Seattle office said on Twitter that
it "has no information to suggest additional attacks planned" in
Washington state but did not elaborate.
A male victim died early
Saturday at a Seattle hospital; authorities had previously announced the
deaths of four females. No other details about the victims were
provided, including their ages.
Tari Caswell told the Skagit
Valley Herald she was in the Macy's women's dressing room when she heard
"what sounded like four balloons popping."
"Then I heard seven or eight more, and I just stayed quiet in the
dressing room because it just didn't feel right. And it got very quiet.
And then I heard a lady yelling for help, and a man came and got me and
another lady, and we ran out of the store," Caswell told the newspaper.
Stephanie
Bose, an assistant general manager at Johnny Carino's Italian
restaurant near the Macy's store at the mall, said she immediately
locked the doors to the restaurant after hearing about the shooting from
an employee's boyfriend.
"He was trying to go to the mall and people were screaming," she told The Associated Press. "It was frantic."
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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.
Francis
said at about 8:30 p.m. that the mall had been evacuated and emergency
medical personnel were cleared to enter. Francis said authorities were
still doing a "final clear" of the 434,000-square-foot mall late Friday
night. He said 11 search teams and two K9 units were involved.
The
parking lot was closed and emergency management officials told people
they would be able to retrieve vehicles Saturday, though the mall said
it would be closed for the day.
Gov. Jay Inslee said tragedy had struck the state.
"We
urge residents to heed all safety and detour warnings. Stay close to
your friends and loved ones as we await more information and, hopefully,
news of the suspect's capture," Inslee said in a statement.
The
Cascade Mall is an enclosed shopping mall that opened in 1990,
according to the mall's website. It features J.C. Penney, TJ Maxx, and
Macy's stores, among other stores, restaurants and a movie theater.
On
Sept. 17 a man stabbed 10 people at a Minnesota mall before being shot
and killed by an off-duty police officer. Authorities say Dahir Ahmed
Adan, 20, stabbed the people at the Crossroads Center in St. Cloud,
Minnesota.
Associated Press
Source:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-washington-mall-shooting-20160923-story.html
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