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Police: Four dead at shooting at Washington mall
CNN ^ | Sep. 23, 2014 | Steve Almasy and Joe Sutton

Posted on 09/23/2016 8:20:21 PM PDT by PROCON

(CNN)Four people were killed in a shooting at a mall in Burlington, Washington, on Friday night, a spokesman for the state patrol tweeted. Police are searching for at least one shooter, and are sweeping stores in the mall, Sgt. Mark Francis said.

Burlington is about an hour north of Seattle.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: alohasnackbar; arcan; arcancetin; burlington; cetin; mall; shooting; washington
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To: Georgia Girl 2

I wonder if he is one of the resettled refugees. Perhaps the girl at the perfume counter dissed him. He looks kind of spaced out walking in, like on a mission. Too bad he did not wait around for suicide by cop.

The 22 rifle is a bit baffling. I would expect a “terrorist” or narco seller to have an AK, a street thug to have a “nine” but a 22 cal seems a bit unusual for shooting someone close range. Reports say he left the gun? My sense is it is stolen as I don’t see someone leaving a gun knowing it could be traced to them if legally bought.


61 posted on 09/24/2016 10:57:41 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: Mouton

For a personal dispute it seems like he would just walk in with a handgun in his pocket and use that.


62 posted on 09/24/2016 11:02:36 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Mouton

“Perhaps the girl at the perfume counter dissed him. He looks kind of spaced out walking in, like on a mission. Too bad he did not wait around for suicide by cop.”

I think we are looking for clues and ignoring the obvious: Perhaps he is a radicalized jihadi and used the method he would be familiar with. He walks in shoots as many rounds randomly as he had available, put the gun down and fled before anyone could get the cops there, ran off by a pre-planned escape route before any police response could arrive. Terror spread, attack successful and he disappears to fight again. He will be a hero in his world.


63 posted on 09/24/2016 11:14:01 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (I'm deplorable)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

It is atypical for a Mexican to murder 4 women. This sounds more like a Muslim. They murder men, women, and children.


64 posted on 09/24/2016 11:24:25 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarm)
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To: PROCON

This is not far from where I live and this morning I learned that the gentleman who was murdered is a close relative of a friend of mine. His wife was with him and was very lucky not to have been injured. It scares me to think this guy is still on the loose, but outside Seattle, there are a lot of people with concealed carry permits. If this guy goes out in the public and attempts to pull the trigger again, it’s doubtful he would get off more than one round.


65 posted on 09/24/2016 11:26:33 AM PDT by CityCenter (By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down, yea we wept...)
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To: Neoliberalnot

What is frustrating, at least to me, is that we think that these attacks have to fit certain patterns to be “jihadi” attacks. B.S. These attackers are not robots or computer programs that must run in a certain way. We have fighting-the-last-war syndrome. They can change tactics, they can do things different than what we expect, they can cross us up...we are so locked in that often we are the stupid ones.


66 posted on 09/24/2016 11:42:58 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (I'm deplorable)
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To: CityCenter

It would be good if his wife could say what the killer said and did, would show if it was jihad action or personally motivated murders. If you hear anything, please post it.


67 posted on 09/24/2016 12:18:37 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: PROCON

Suspect captured is supposedly a Turkish Muslim.

What a shock!

God help us get Obama out of the White House, and make sure Hillary is kept away too...so their madness of inviting the enemy by the hundreds of thousands among us will end by we the people electing Donald Trump.


68 posted on 09/24/2016 8:32:06 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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