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| Police have arrested the suspect who fatally shot four women on Friday, and one man in a Burlington, WA mall using a rifle. An officer identified the gunman on the streets of Oak Harbor city, detaining him without incident. | Police have arrested the suspect who fatally shot four women on Friday, and one man in a Burlington, WA mall using a rifle. An officer identified the gunman on the streets of Oak Harbor city, detaining him without incident. |
| While the authorities have not yet released the identity of the suspect, KOMO News reported, citing law enforcement sources, that the man, in his 20s, was confirmed as Arcan Cetin. | |
| Earlier, reports on local media and social media identified Cetin as the ex-boyfriend of one of the shooting victims. None of this could immediately be confirmed. | |
| The reported Turkish identity conflicts with the description of the alleged “Hispanic” appearance that police and media spread following the shooting. The possibly-erroneous description has quickly become a subject of scorn on Twitter. | |
| The rifle-wilding attacker went on a shooting spree in Macy's department store around 7:00pm Friday. He shouted a woman’s name before firing shots at shoppers and attempting to run away, according to reports. While the motives of the shooter, who is believed to have acted alone, were not revealed at the time, the FBI had been looking into the incident as a potential act of terrorism. | |
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