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I'm sorry for the victims families. As a former Seattle resident, this hits hard. This is as close to home as we get guys. Keep your powder dry and a watchful eye.
And plenty of NWFA members are WA residents, let's remember that.
Yup, malls are turning in to kill zones. Very, very sad.
Brutus Out
All very good points you made. I'm surprised that no identification has been made yet, in this day and age of near constant data mining and surveillance you'd think that they would be able to id the bad guy by now. Which leads me to think that this wasn't random, and very well thought out beforehand.Here's what we know based on officially released information.
Bad guy enters Cascade Mall in Burlington, WA around 7pm not looking like a bad guy and without a visible weapon.
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Bad guy reenters mall 10-minutes later carrying a rifle.
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Bad guy leaves the rifle on the counter in Macy's after killing 5-people, and leaves the mall walking toward I-5. Bad guy has not been seen since, and police don't seem to have an ID.
My thoughts:
1. This bad guy had a plan! This was not intended to be a mass shooting that ended in the bad guy getting killed by the police. The bad guy had an entry and exit plan. I also have to assume that this bad guy had a well thought out plan since he has evaded capture and the police do not have an ID even though he left the murder weapon behind and was captured on surveillance cameras.
2. The bad guy appears to have initially entered the mall unarmed (at least he didn't have a rifle) to surveille his target, and then left to retrieve a rifle that was stashed nearby.
3. We don't know if the bad guy was targeting a specific individual and any potential witnesses or if all his targets were random. Regardless, this guy did not stay long enough for the police to interdict.
4. The bad guy leaves the murder weapon on the counter? That's smart if you want to slip out of the Mall with everyone else fleeing and not appear to be the bad guy. Considering that the bad guy got in and out without getting shot, or positively ID'd, I'm guessing the bad guy knows that the weapon isn't traceable to him, and that he does not have fingerprints on record. We would have an ID on the bad guy by now if the bad guy's weapon or fingerprints were traceable.
4. The only thing between the Mall and I-5 is a parking lot. Was there an accomplice driving a getaway vehicle? The only way the bad guy was going to get away on foot in the direction he was last seen walking was to cross I-5, and that would be really hard to do on foot without being witnessed.
5. Burlington is a small town. It seems highly likely that someone would recognize bad guy if he was local. Thus, I would not assume that the bad guy was local.
6. The police do not know the bad guy's ethnic background and clearly stated this fact at the news conference this morning. Only the news media has been saying the guy was Hispanic. The police simply said the bad guy had mildly dark skin and dark hair.
7. The proximity of the Cascade Mall to I-5 and the fact that it is located in a small town makes it a good target if your plan is to attack unarmed people and get away.
All things considered, the bad guy could be anywhere right now. Given the level of planning that appears to have gone into this attack, I'm not going to assume that the Burlington Mall is the only target on this bad guy's attack list. I'm also not going to assume that the bad guy did not have an accomplice.
this is impossible, Washington has a universal background check law. There is no way a bad guy can acquire a firearm without a BGC.Considering that the bad guy got in and out without getting shot, or positively ID'd, I'm guessing the bad guy knows that the weapon isn't traceable to him, and that he does not have fingerprints on record. We would have an ID on the bad guy by now if the bad guy's weapon or fingerprints were traceable.