Im in SoCal too and you are absolutely right..Ive never heard of a Hispanic shooting up a mall, sometimes I hear about gang related shootings OUTSIDE of mini malls/malls, but actually going into a mall and shooting up the place, never heard of it happen..go to Compton, South Central, East LA and San Bernardino its all gang related shootings, they are shooting each other, they dont bother with malls
I never heard of that either. Fights inside a mall, yes.
Yep. There’s no shortage of Mexican shootings here in SoCal. Good thing too or it would be even more crowded than it is.
They may even take out several at a time if it involves crashing a party and all the vato locos get their machismo in a wad.
But I’ve never heard of any Mexicans going to a mall and just killing people at random.
We do, however, know of a group that does like to kill people this way. They don’t happen to be latino.
The Tacoma Mall (Washington) shooting was an attempted mass murder that occurred on November 20, 2005, at the Tacoma Mall in Tacoma, Washington, United States. The gunman, Dominick Sergio Maldonado, entered the mall with a semi-automatic Norinco MAK-90 rifle and a pistol, injuring six before he instigated four armed kidnappings.
During the course of the shooting, Brendan (Dan) McKown, a legally armed citizen, intervened. McKown drew his 9mm CZ pistol but then re-holstered it when he thought the shooter might have already been apprehended. A few moments later McKown came face to face with Maldonado. McKown (with his handgun still holstered)[1] verbally commanded Maldonado to put down his gun. Maldonado's response was to fire on McKown, striking him once in the leg and four times in the torso, damaging McKown's spine and leaving him paralyzed. In addition to McKown, five other people were shot but not seriously injured, and a seventh person received a non-gunshot injury. At least one other person in the mall at the time also pulled a gun on Maldonado, but did not fire for fear of hitting innocent bystanders. No one was killed during the shooting.
Maldonado then took four people hostage in a Sam Goody store, including two employees, a customer, and a 12-year-old boy whom he only briefly held captive before releasing. The attack began shortly after noon, and the hostage situation lasted until four p.m. when Maldonado surrendered to a Tacoma police SWAT team without further incident.
The perpetrator in the shootings was 20-year-old Dominick Sergio Maldonado, who had an extensive juvenile criminal record including burglary, theft, and possession of burglary tools. He had also been given a court order not to possess any weapons. At the time of the shooting, Maldonado had recently separated from his girlfriend, and had been using methamphetamine without sleep for almost a week.
Maldonado was charged with eight counts of first-degree assault, four counts of first-degree kidnapping, and two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm. Maldonado pleaded not guilty to the charges and has since been through five different lawyers and three defense teams.
Maldonado was convicted on October 2, 2007, and sentenced to 163 years in prison on November 2. He unsuccessfully attempted to escape from the Clallam Bay Corrections Center on June 29, 2011.[11] During the escape attempt, 25-year-old Dominick Maldonado took a corrections officer hostage using a pair of scissors. Kevin Newland, a second inmate, was shot and killed by a guard after driving a forklift through a set of doors and crashing it into a perimeter fence.