The man accused of killing five in a shooting at a mall in Washington state on Friday night confessed to detectives, according to court records obtained Monday.
Arcan Cetin, 20, is charged with five counts of murder after the shooting at the Cascade Mall in Burlington. His bail is set at $2 million.
In charging documents filed in Skagit County and released Monday, authorities said Cetin admitted to being the man seen in video from the scene and told detectives that "he did bring the rifle into Macy's and shot all five victims."
Witnesses saw Cetin get a rifle from the trunk of his blue four-door sedan, the documents show. Cetin's father later told police that he drives a blue Chevrolet Cavalier.
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Police say Cetin walked into the west entrance of the Macy's women's department at Cascade Mall and opened fire. The shooting took about a minute, investigators said.
Cetin shot Sarai Lara, 16, near some clothing racks and then walked toward a cosmetics counter. He encountered victim Chuck Eagan and then shot three other women, police said.
Cetin then placed the rifle, a Ruger 10/22 that had a 25-round magazine in the magazine well, on top of the cosmetics counter and left Macy's. He then got into his vehicle.
Video showed his vehicle traveling northbound on Burlington Boulevard near Cascade Place. The vehicle was last seen on video near Burlington Boulevard near Fairhaven Avenue.
Cetin's father told police after the attack that his gun and ammunition were missing. Cetin's mother identified him from images of the shooting suspect, court documents show. She said she last saw him at his apartment on Sept. 21, two days before the shooting.
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Authorities were initially searching for a Hispanic man after receiving descriptions from 911 callers who described the shooter as a possibly Hispanic man dressed in grayish clothing who entered the store with a long rifle and fired multiple shots. Cetin said on his Facebook page that he is from Turkey, and authorities later acknowledged that their description was based on initial information.
Cetin is from Oak Harbor and graduated from Oak Harbor High School in 2015. Acquaintances say Cetin had been working at the commissary at Naval Air Station on Whidbey Island.
The Cox Media Group National Content Desk contributed to this report.
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