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Cascade Mall shooting
On September 23, 2016, a mass shooting occurred at Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington, United States. Five people were killed in the incident. The gunman was identified as Arcan Cetin, a 20-year-old who emigrated from Turkey as a child with his family. He was arrested the following day in Oak Harbor, Washington, his hometown. On September 26, he confessed to committing the shooting. On April 16, 2017, Cetin killed himself via hanging in his jail cell.
On September 23, 2016, Cetin bought tickets to an evening showing of the movie Snowden at Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington. He propped open the theater's exit door with his cell phone and left the theater, an action reminiscent of how the 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting was carried out. However, a theater associate found the phone and turned it in to a theater kiosk, where Cetin subsequently retrieved it. Shortly before 7:00 p.m. PDT on the same day, Cetin walked into a Macy's store at Cascade Mall with a stolen Ruger 10/22 rifle and opened fire, killing a teenage girl, three women, and one man, the latter of whom died the next day at a Seattle hospital from three gunshot wounds, including one to the head.
Video footage of the shooting, released on October 28, showed the gunman randomly targeting his victims. He first killed a teenage girl near some clothing racks, then approached a cosmetics counter, where he killed one man and three women. All of the victims were shot at close range, while others present in the store escaped unharmed because of their distance from the shooter. Afterwards, the gunman abandoned his weapon and fled the scene in a blue four-door vehicle.
The FBI and ATF provided assistance to the Burlington police and Washington state police in investigating the shooting.
The shooting followed a number of widely publicized attacks on shopping centers, and came a week after a mass stabbing at the Crossroads Center shopping mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
Five people were killed in the shooting. They were Sarai Lara (16), a sophomore at Mount Vernon High School and cancer survivor; Chuck Eagan (61), a Boeing maintenance worker from Lake Stevens; Belinda Galde (64), a probation officer with the Snohomish County District Court; Beatrice Dotson (95), Galde's mother; and Shayla Martin (52), a make-up artist at Macy's.
Cetin was charged with "premeditated intent" on five counts of aggravated murder, a charge that was upgraded from the initial charge of first-degree premeditated murder. The charge of aggravated murder is punishable by a sentence of life without parole, or, at the time of the shooting, by the death penalty.
Arcan Cetin (pronounced [aɾˈdʒan tʃeˈtin], August 20, 1996 – April 16, 2017) was born in Adana, Turkey. He immigrated to the United States as a child after his mother married a U.S. citizen. Authorities initially identified him as a "permanent resident" until further investigation found that he was a naturalized American citizen. He graduated from Oak Harbor High School in 2015 and worked as a bagger at the Commissary in Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.
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Cascade Mall shooting
On September 23, 2016, a mass shooting occurred at Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington, United States. Five people were killed in the incident. The gunman was identified as Arcan Cetin, a 20-year-old who emigrated from Turkey as a child with his family. He was arrested the following day in Oak Harbor, Washington, his hometown. On September 26, he confessed to committing the shooting. On April 16, 2017, Cetin killed himself via hanging in his jail cell.
On September 23, 2016, Cetin bought tickets to an evening showing of the movie Snowden at Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington. He propped open the theater's exit door with his cell phone and left the theater, an action reminiscent of how the 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting was carried out. However, a theater associate found the phone and turned it in to a theater kiosk, where Cetin subsequently retrieved it. Shortly before 7:00 p.m. PDT on the same day, Cetin walked into a Macy's store at Cascade Mall with a stolen Ruger 10/22 rifle and opened fire, killing a teenage girl, three women, and one man, the latter of whom died the next day at a Seattle hospital from three gunshot wounds, including one to the head.
Video footage of the shooting, released on October 28, showed the gunman randomly targeting his victims. He first killed a teenage girl near some clothing racks, then approached a cosmetics counter, where he killed one man and three women. All of the victims were shot at close range, while others present in the store escaped unharmed because of their distance from the shooter. Afterwards, the gunman abandoned his weapon and fled the scene in a blue four-door vehicle.
The FBI and ATF provided assistance to the Burlington police and Washington state police in investigating the shooting.
The shooting followed a number of widely publicized attacks on shopping centers, and came a week after a mass stabbing at the Crossroads Center shopping mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
Five people were killed in the shooting. They were Sarai Lara (16), a sophomore at Mount Vernon High School and cancer survivor; Chuck Eagan (61), a Boeing maintenance worker from Lake Stevens; Belinda Galde (64), a probation officer with the Snohomish County District Court; Beatrice Dotson (95), Galde's mother; and Shayla Martin (52), a make-up artist at Macy's.
Cetin was charged with "premeditated intent" on five counts of aggravated murder, a charge that was upgraded from the initial charge of first-degree premeditated murder. The charge of aggravated murder is punishable by a sentence of life without parole, or, at the time of the shooting, by the death penalty.
Arcan Cetin (pronounced [aɾˈdʒan tʃeˈtin], August 20, 1996 – April 16, 2017) was born in Adana, Turkey. He immigrated to the United States as a child after his mother married a U.S. citizen. Authorities initially identified him as a "permanent resident" until further investigation found that he was a naturalized American citizen. He graduated from Oak Harbor High School in 2015 and worked as a bagger at the Commissary in Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.