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.""
Maldonado has a juvenile record dating back to 1998 that includes charges of burglary and theft, court records show. As part of a sentence in a 1998 case, he was prohibited from using or owning a firearm.
Odd, is it not, how criminals do not obey the law?
Thank you for the update, Cindy.