A 20-YEAR-OLD man was taken into custody Saturday night in connection with a shooting that killed five people at a mall north of Seattle on Friday, U.S. authorities said.
The authorities identified the suspect as Arcan Cetin of Oak Harbor. He was taken into custody without incident around 6:30 p.m.
Officials said that they had received numerous tips about the gunman and that surveillance footage had helped locate him. Charges were pending, said the authorities, who said it was too early to say what led to the shootings.
On his Facebook page, Cetin listed his hometown as Adana, Turkey. Officials said he was a legal permanent resident of the United States. He graduated last year from Oak Harbor High School and listed himself on Facebook as a bagger at the Whidbey Island Commissary.
The attacker killed four women in the cosmetics section of a Macy’s department store, the authorities said. A man was critically wounded in the shooting and was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he died. (SD-Agencies)
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