4 dead in Cascade Mall shooting; search for armed man underway

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[securityMama]

Active shooter at large

[SE Mom]

Marcy O’Rourke
@life_ontherocks
1m
#CascadeMall 25 miles north on I 5 many sirens, helicopter. Could be heading for Canada border.

[dragnet2]

I was raised around Hispanic folk, and the person in that image I’d guess is Mideastern.

[Alberta's Child]

That was the initial report from people at the scene. I haven’t heard anyone say that on the scanner in a while.

[jonrick46]

Looks like he has a Muslim beard growing. Wait until this happens at Seatac Mall. All the malls in Washington State will be impacted. People will be afraid to shop in them at just the time when these malls start making their big money with the holidays.

[Alberta's Child]

Cool. Sounds like this could end in a great scene at the border.

'Eff those British Columbians. :-P

[jonrick46]

There is speculation that he may have went to a getaway car parked on the shoulder of I-5. If he did, he is long gone.

[Timpanagos1]

Build a wall.

[Alberta's Child]

See Post #201. This could be getting interesting.

Oh, please let this be an Islamic mutant from Canada. If Donald Trump can spend the next six weeks calling Justin Trudeau a faggot frog and threatening to close the border, he might win all 57 states.

[Alberta's Child]

Gotta hit the sack, folks. I hope to get up bright and early to see what has transpired overnight.

[gunsequalfreedom]

What do you make of that? Just a coincidence that they happened to be seen together? Seems like an odd combination of perps.

Too early to be definitive. Not too early to consider a second suspect a possibility.

[tumblindice]

A Lee Malvo, John Muhammed strangelove duo?

[Paul R.]

Post of the day - maybe the week! :-)

[Paul R.]

Too bad innocents got hurt / killed, though. :-(

[djf]

A profiler that they are interviewing on TV says he’s pretty sure that they already know who the shooter is. Didn’t say he himself knew.

It’s speculation, but maybe...

[tinamina]

I know this mall well. It is right next to I5 and there is a fairly new walking path which goes from the mall UNDER the freeway so the car could easily be stashed on the other side of the freeway. Or the guy could easily get into that Markwood area.
The area is hugely Hispanic. If this is a Muslim he likely came from elsewhere to do the shooting, which seems unlikely to me. No mosques except Bellingham, another world 25 miles away.

[ShivaFan]

Those who were shot dead, were they together in a group or identified as knowing each other? Or no associated with each other?

[jennychase]

[TheLurkerX]

This is the front page pic they're showing on the article. He doesn't look Hispanic to me, and he's wearing black, with no hat.

[jonrick46]

"Now it's sounding more like this may have been a targeted act against specific people."

That is my first thought too. I speculated that the perp was a gang member out to shoot up other gang members. Violence over drugs is a big problem everywhere. The photo of him carrying a rifle makes me think differently. Usually gang bangers carry out their shootings with hand guns. This is the behavior of a terrorist.

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