MOUNT VERNON, Wash.—A man charged with five counts of first-degree premeditated murder in the shooting deaths of five people at a Washington state mall shared an early dinner with his stepfather then told him he was headed to his job at a gym.
Instead, police say, Arcan Cetin headed to the Cascade Mall in Burlington, pulled a Ruger rifle from his trunk and opened fire in a Macy’s department store, instantly killing three women and a teenage girl and critically wounding a man who died hours later.
As the small city an hour north of Seattle struggled to make sense of the carnage, an unsettling portrait emerged of the man authorities say was the shooter.
Arcan Cetin is escorted into Skagit County District Court by Skagit County's Sheriff's Deputies on Sept. 26, 2016. Brandy Shreve/Skagit Valley Herald via AP
