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20-yr old Washington mall shooting suspect arrested

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20-yr old Washington mall shooting suspect arrested
After spending a day on the run, 20-year-old Arcan Cetin, the assailant suspected of killing five people at a shopping mall in the American state of Washington has been arrested by police.
Moments after he was captured, Mark Francis of Washington State Patrol took to his Twitter page to announce the development; “Gunman captured tonight by authorities,” he wrote on his timeline.
Reuters news agency reported that the police identified the shooter as Arcan Cetin, 20, of Oak Harbor.
The attack which occurred at the busy Cascade Mall in Burlington on Friday evening witnessed the shooting of four women who all died following the incident while another man died of gun wounds after he was airlifted to a hospital.

 

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