http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/police-id-assailant-in-columbia-mall-shooting/2014/01/26/e9cf39ec-8696-11e3-916e-e01534b1e132_story.htmlPolice say they have disabled crude attempts at explosive devices found in gunman's bag at Maryland mall - @AP
Since the shooter first went to Zumiez, then to the food court, where the 2 Zumiez employees were sitting, I will assume this was a targeted and personal killing.
Does anybody know how many laws the killer had broken befor he fired the first shot?
Somebody please explain to me how this mutt walks up to the second floor of a busy mall with a loaded shotgun.
Hearing rumors of shooting on I-81...near Hagerstown...no confirmation..just a text from a friend.
Must be a White right-wing extremist. < / s >
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
19 year old shooter? I do not think it is legal in Maryland for teenagers to have firearms. Shirley the reporter er journalist is mistaken about his age.
All images and videos have been scrubbed by NBC.
Local Faux affiliate still has video footage up, for now, as well as The Dispatch Logs...
One of O’Malley’s new Americans?
Shooter ID'ed as "Darion Marcus Aguilar, age 19, lived at 4704 Hollywood Road, College Park, MD"
Does anybody know if Maryland is planning on secretly demolishing that shopping mall?
Afterall we wouldn’t want the loved ones of the victims to see where their family members were gunned down by a predator.
Something that the State of Connecticut did in Newtown.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/police-id-assailant-in-columbia-mall-shooting/2014/01/26/e9cf39ec-8696-11e3-916e-e01534b1e132_story.htmlHearing from a relative who has some friends on the local Howard County, Maryland police force. There are now questions about just where they found the body of the shooter. The police chief stated that all 3 bodies were located within the store.
However, according to witnesses, after killing the two victims in the store, the shooter did make his way out of the store onto the upper level of the mall and he did shoot at a couple of more people. One man went to the hospital with a few pellets in his foot. That man was in the lower level food court during the shooting. The shooter could not have fired from inside the store to the food court below. He would have had to been leaning over the rail and firing down.
Another woman on the upper level stated that she was in the corridor of the mall a couple of stores away when the shooter emerged from the store. He raised the shotgun pointing at her and she made eye contact with him. She stood stunned but then heard her husband shout at her from some distance away to get down. She hit the ground and a shotgun blast riddled the wall behind her. Her husband was apparently on an escalator heading up when he saw what was going on and started running up toward them. In his haste, he apparently tried to cut a shortcut near the top of the escalator and hit a suspended structural beam and broke his jaw, sending him to the hospital in the aftermath as well.
Add to this that a shotgun can be rather difficult for a young fellow to shoot himself with. Granted, not impossible but worth questioning. Was the shotgun barrel sawed off? Did anybody actually see the shooter kill himself? Will somebody ask these witnesses to clarify just where the shooter was when they saw him? The police chief stated that they were able to review the mall cameras and see when he arrived at the mall, what he did for an hour at the mall up until when he walked into the store and killed the two employees. But nothing was mentioned about what the cameras showed after the two employees were gunned down.
Side note: There was a customer (a teenage male) in the store and standing in the shooter’s sight behind the young lady and he hit the floor just as the first shot was fired killing the girl. He said that he was surprised that the shooter did not see him. The counter area where the girl was located was apparently an island arrangement toward the middle of the floor so when the young witness dropped, he was hidden by the counter and closer to the front of the store and he scrambled on his hands and knees out of the store. This witness stated that he first saw the shooter emerge with the shotgun from a changing area near the back of the store and walk up to the counter to shoot the young lady and then turn and shoot the young male employee.
Did the store have it’s own security cameras? Did the mall cameras pick up the shooter emerging from the store back into the mall as witness statements and evidence appear to indicate? Perhaps a clarification of witness accounts, police photo of the actual gun used and a public release of the shooter’s autopsy report might help? How long until the press looks at all the information gathered to date and says, “Hmmm....”?
Basically, from what I am understanding, the thought behind the rumors are that the shooter was actually taken out by either an off-duty cop or a private citizen CCW permit holder outside the store in the upper level mall corridor, not in the store as the police chief stated, but the state officials (read: Maryland liberals) do not want that info to get out because it will only serve to promote the conservative 2nd Amendment agenda.
Time will tell but it may be worth keeping an eye on.