2016 Cascade Mall shooting
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 2016 Cascade Mall shooting (Washington (state))
2016 Cascade Mall shooting (the US)
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| Location | Cascade Mall, Burlington, Washington, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 48°27′44″N 122°20′16″W / 48.462213°N 122.337782°WCoordinates: 48°27′44″N 122°20′16″W / 48.462213°N 122.337782°W |
| Date | September 23, 2016 6:52 p.m. (PDT) |
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Attack type
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Mass shooting, mass murder |
| Weapons | Ruger 10/22 rifle |
| Deaths | 5 |
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Suspected perpetrator
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Arcan Cetin |
On September 23, 2016, five people were killed in a mass shooting at the Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington, U.S. The gunman was identified as Arcan Cetin, a 20-year-old who emigrated from Turkey as a child with his family. He was arrested the following day in Oak Harbor, Washington, his hometown. On September 26, he confessed to committing the shooting.
On September 23, 2016, Cetin bought tickets to an evening showing of the movie Snowden at the Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington. He propped open the theater's exit door with his cell phone and left the theater, an action reminiscent of how the 2012 Aurora shooting was carried out. However, a moviegoer found the phone and turned it into a theater kiosk, where Cetin subsequently retrieved it. Shortly before 7:00 p.m. PDT on the same day, Cetin walked into a Macy's store at the Cascade Mall with a stolen rifle and opened fire, killing four women and one man. The male victim died the next day at a Seattle hospital.
Video footage of the shooting, released on October 28, showed the gunman randomly targeting his victims. He first killed a woman near some clothing racks, then approached a cosmetics counter, where he killed one man and three women. All of the victims were shot at close range, and other people present in the store were able to escape unharmed because of their distance from the shooter. Afterwards, the gunman abandoned his weapon and fled the scene in a blue four-door vehicle.
The FBI and ATF are providing assistance to the Burlington police and Washington state police in investigating the shooting.
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