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AUTHORITIES IN THE US have arrested a Turkish-born man suspected of shooting five people dead, including a teenaged cancer survivor, at a shopping mall in the state of Washington.
State Patrol spokesman Sergeant Mark Francis named the suspect as Arcan Cetin, a 20-year-old resident of the nearby town of Oak Harbor, saying he was arrested about 24 hours after the killings. There were no other suspects.
Police had initially described the suspect as a Hispanic man in his late teens or early 20s.
A Facebook page that appeared to belong to Cetin said he was born in Adana, Turkey, went to Oak Harbor High School and had worked at a grocery store on the town’s Whidbey Island.
In February, he posted a link to a “Call of Duty” first-person shooter videogame practice session, in an eery foreshadowing of real world violence he was to perpetrate.
YouTube users posted lewd comments on that page and Cetin’s Twitter page in response to the mall shooting.
Motive unknown
The gunman opened fire with a rifle in the makeup section of a Macy’s department store late on Friday, killing four women and a man, according to police.
The FBI office in Seattle said it had no evidence the shooting was terror-related.
The shooter later left the store on foot, triggering an intense manhunt.
A weapon was recovered at Cascade Mall in Burlington, a town of about 8,000 people some 70 miles (110 kilometers) north of Seattle.
“I don’t know what his motivation was to do this,” Chris Cammock, police chief in the larger nearby town of Mount Vernon, told a news conference. “But I certainly plan to find out through the investigation, to the best of our ability.”
The youngest victim was named as Sarai Lara, 16, who survived cancer as a young girl. Relatives named another victim as 52-year-old Shayla Martin, who worked as a Macy’s makeup artist.
“We’re really having a tough time right now,” her sister Karen Van Horn told The Seattle Times.
- © AFP 2016.
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Mum’s gone to Miceland.
@Killian Ryan: ah it will strengthen your immunity ya be alright
It doesn’t take rats to avoid Iceland
Had a detour to Gorey th’other week and got a few frozen nibbles in there. Glad I only went to the fridges and took nothing from the shelves. I don’t think I’ll be going there in future.
@DaisyChainsaw: I think something already had a nibble on your nibbles.
@WJH: Ewww. Time to bleach the fridge!!
@DaisyChainsaw: and your nibbles..
Thought that was the new FG poster.
@Sean Conway: Give it up!
@Sean Conway: ya ha good observation lol should deffo
Whatever about the health implications, I can’t get over how cute those little guys in the photo look.
Last time we went to Iceland my wife found fifty euros on the ground outside. Swings and roundabouts, I suppose.
Surely this is exactly the place where the homeless cats from yesterdays ispca article need to be re-housed
Trust iceland !
Mickey mouse story.
I bet it was the CHEESE & onion crisps they were at
@Brian Fitzmaurice: Dead right, I’m sticking to the salt and vinegar crisps from now on.
Last time I went to Iceland it was bright in the middle of the night.
Perhaps the rats dropped the 50 Euro: It’s the sort of thing you expect from Irish rats.
Get fresh supply school lunches and college food ffs
@Bootz Tully: is it the one company that does it? Or would they have different areas over Ireland? My son gets his school lunch from them.
Sweet and sour Rat, very tasty very sweet.
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