Charges: Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda Planned To ‘Kill An Adult’ Before Throwing Boy Over Balcony At MOA

wcco ^ | 4/15/19 | wcco/cbs

[RummyChick]

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A 24-year-old Minneapolis man now faces a felony charge accusing him of throwing a 5-year-old boy over a balcony at Mall Of America.

Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda faces one felony count of attempted premeditated first-degree murder in connection to the incident at MOA Friday.

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According to the criminal complaint, Aranda went to the mall on Thursday with the intent to kill someone, but that it didn’t “work out”. He allegedly returned the next day, planning to kill an adult, but instead chose the boy. He allegedly threw the boy from the third-floor balcony outside the Rainforest Café.

The mother of the boy told authorities Aranda approached them and, without warning, picked the boy up and threw him over the side of the balcony. The complaint does not say why the boy was chosen by Aranda.

[2harddrive]

Could it be ISLAMIC JIHAD???

[Sam Gamgee]

So will the media designate this a terror attack?

[Sam Gamgee]

So clearly this was a coward terrorist who didn’t have the balls to try to lift an adult over the railing.

[Midwesterner53]

I wish President Trump would publicly send his best wishes to this child in order to force the media to give it a bit of coverage. Better yet, he is in Minnesota today, go see the kid.

[ridesthemiles]

“Aranda’s uncle, Francis Aranda, said his nephew had violent tendencies since childhood, even with his own family. In 2014, before moving to Minnesota, he was charged with a handful of crimes, including assault, after he threatened to slit a restaurant employee’s neck during a dispute in the Chicago area, “he has a serious mental problem, he was diagnosed as a child,” replied Aranda. “”””

AND-—after all these years, this creep is wandering around in society.

When they start holding the family on charges for not reporting him & getting him into a padded cell, maybe some of this nonsense would stop.

Thank the ACLU once again for making Reagan shut down mental hospitals because ‘it is unfair to hold them”.

[sparklite2]

The Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 (MHSA) was United States legislation signed by President Jimmy Carter which provided grants to community mental health centers. During the following Ronald Reagan administration, the United States Congress repealed most of the law.