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"Chávez builds base with grass-roots circles in U.S".
Miami Herald ^ | November 21, 2005 | PABLO BACHELET pbachelet@herald.com
Posted on 11/21/2005 2:06:58 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/249155_shooting21.html
Monday, November 21, 2005
"Shooting at Tacoma Mall leaves 7 injured
Man fires on shoppers, takes hostages, then gives up"
By JAKE ELLISON, CHRISTINE FREY AND ATHIMA CHANSANCHAI
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTERS
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "TACOMA -- A routine day of shopping turned into a terrifying scene at the Tacoma Mall Sunday, witnesses said, when a young man in a shirt and tie opened fire with an assault rifle, then kept three people hostage for hours before surrendering to police.
At least seven people were injured -- one critically -- and the mall was locked down Sunday afternoon as frightened shoppers scrambled for safety.
Shortly before 4 p.m., the gunman came out of a Sam Goody record store without a gun and surrendered to a SWAT team, said Mark Fulghum, a spokesman for Tacoma police. The hostages -- two store employees and a customer -- were released unhurt. Dominick S. Maldonado, 20, was booked on six counts of assault and three counts of kidnapping and was being held on $450,000 bail, according to Pierce County jail records.
One of the hostages said late Sunday night that Maldonado was angry at police. He said the gunman told the hostages his name and age and said the reason he opened fire in the mall was because "some officer did him wrong when he was younger.""
Sadly, this is true. There is suspicion and mistrust in the Venezuelan communities in the U.S. right now. People don't know who the Chavistas are, and anti-chavistas are afraid to identify themselves for fear of repercussions for their relatives in Venezuela.