Authorities ask that anyone who left their car in the parking lot to pick up their vehicles on Saturday.Īll survivors found inside the mall were taken by bus to nearby His Place Community Church and are safe. 'You've got bomb K9s, you've got county, city, federal, state, you name it, it's here.'Ĭascade Mall has been secured, but is still an active crime scene. 'You've got absolutely everyone you can think of, law enforcement-wise here right now,' said Francis. Police swarmed the area, and ask that the public stays away while they search for the gunman. 'We went in the back, where we have a door and everything and we just stayed there until they told us to evacuate.' I just moved them into the store,' said Patino. 'I hear one shot and and then stand kinda still and like two, three other people start running out, saying 'gun.''

'Out of nowhere, I just hear somebody yell and then after that, I turn around and just look at the Macy's and I just hear shots,' said Armando Patino, who was working the T-Mobile store.

And then I heard a lady yelling for help, and a man came and got me and another lady, and we ran out of the store,' Caswell told the newspaper. 'Then I heard seven or eight more, and I just stayed quiet in the dressing room, because it just didn't feel right. Tari Caswell told the Skagit Valley Herald she was in the Macy's women's dressing room when she heard 'what sounded like four balloons popping.' Reports stating there was an armed man at Cascade Mall came in shortly before 7 p.m.Īccording to witnesses, the shooter walked into Macy's and opened fire in the crowded store. The suspected shooter was last seen walking toward Interstate 5, away from the mall, Francis told KOMO News. They were described as ranging in age from teenagers to seniors. The four women's bodies remain inside the mall. The fifth victim, a man, died later at Harborview Medical Center. If you live close to the area, stay inside - lock your doors.'Īccording to police, four women were killed. If you see something, just like they say, say something,' said State Patrol Sgt. 'We're doing everything we can to find this person. The FBI said right now, there's no indication this is an act of terror. He left his rifle behind in the mall and apparently slipped away as police began combing through the shopping center. He was then seen about 10 minutes later with a rifle inside the Macy's store. Investigators said newly released surveillance photos show the suspect entering the mall without a weapon. Police don't know his name or his motive. The shooter remained on the loose Saturday morning. ( KOMO) - The FBI has joined the search for an armed man suspected of killing five people in a shooting at Cascade Mall in Skagit County, the Washington State Patrol says. The research group considers four or more people shot and killed, without including the shooter, to be a mass shooting.BURLINGTON, Wash. A study conducted by the National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice analyzed 24 major cities and found that homicides increased by 24% in the first quarter of 2021 when compared to the same time period in 2020, and by 49% from that period in 2019.Īccording to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit database that tracks national gun violence, there have been 362 mass shootings in the United States this year to date. The shootings come during a year that is on pace to be America's deadliest for gun violence in the last two decades. 'We have a homicide problem in our community and the community should expect that we will have the adequate resources.' 'We have clearly a gun violence problem in our community,' he said.

Wheeler called for more clarity on the resources needed for Portland police to address violent crime in the city. 'Anytime lives are lost, when people are injured because of gun violence, I feel myself feeling heartbroken, but at the same time, angry.' It's tragic and it's senseless,' Portland mayor Ted Wheeler said. 'What happened early this morning is devastating.

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