Posted on 01/26/2014 10:50:07 PM PST by Olog-hai
The gunman who killed two people at a Maryland mall was a teenage skateboarding enthusiast who had no criminal record before he showed up at the shopping center armed with a shotgun, plenty of ammunition and a backpack filled with crude homemade explosives, authorities said Sunday.
Darion Marcus Aguilar, 19, took a taxi to the Mall in Columbia in suburban Baltimore on Saturday morning and entered the building near Zumiez, a shop that sells skateboarding gear. He went downstairs to a food court directly below the store, then returned less than an hour later, dumped the backpack in a dressing room and started shooting, police said.
Shoppers fled in a panic or barricaded themselves behind closed doors. When police arrived, they found three people deadtwo store employees and Aguilar, who had killed himself, authorities said.
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Good points!
I thought he dated the girl he killed.
I saw a ranking police spokesman say there was no known motive. The statement was made a long time after I read here that the killer was the girl’s ex.
The police shot him.
Skateboarding and skating are two different sports.
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True. But my sons always referred to skateboarding as
“skating” — or “grinding” — during their skateboard years.
I lost all respect for Hawk when he did board through the peoples house.
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Did that really happen?
My guess.....gay.
Those who ride skateboards have been called "skaters" for many many years...
Maybe he had the hots for the guy,
Yep. It was one of Obama’s, “hey look how cool I am” moments shortly after the 2009 innauguration.
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