Complaint: Man Went to Mall of America Intending to Kill

Complaint: Man Went to Mall of America Intending to Kill
Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda. Bloomington Police Department via AP
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MINNEAPOLIS—The man charged with throwing a 5-year-old boy off a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America told police he was angry at being rejected by women at the Minnesota mall and was “looking for someone to kill” when he went there last week, according to a criminal complaint on April 15

Emmanuel Aranda, 24, of Minneapolis, is charged with attempted premeditated first-degree murder in Friday’s attack. The child plunged almost 40 feet and is fighting for his life in a Minneapolis hospital with head trauma and multiple broken bones.