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Cascade Mall shooting: Suspected gunman found dead in prison cell
[BBC] A man accused of killing five people at a shopping mall in Washington state has been found hanging inside his prison cell, say officials.Arcan Cetin,
 20, who had been awaiting trial for the mass shooting in 2016, was found dead in the Snohomish County Jail on Sunday night.He had been charged with five counts of aggravated murder, and could have faced the death penalty if found guilty. Authorities have not yet determined the cause of death. According to Sherlocks, Cetin shot five shoppers at a Macy's department store after first trying to enter through the backdoor of a nearby cinema. The shooting spree at the Cascade shopping mall occurred less than three hours after he had sat down for dinner with his stepfather. Surveillance footage from inside the mall shows the suspect opening fire on four woman and one man as they browsed the store. Police say Cetin was inside the mall for less than one minute before he fled the store, leaving the .22 calibre rifle, which police say had been stolen from Cetin's stepfather, on a counter in the cosmetics department. He was tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! about 30 hours later as he walked near to his apartment in Oak Harbor, Washington, according to local media.
At the request of one of his lawyers, Cetin had been held in Snohomish County for about a month, Weyrich said. The move to Snohomish County came about because Cetin was making statements to other inmates that were "against his best interests," said Skagit County spokeswoman Bronlea Mishler. Cetin was awaiting results of a second competency evaluation, a hearing for which had been scheduled for next week. Posted by: Skidmark 2017-04-18 |
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