SEATTLE — Three people have been killed during a shooting at a mall north of Seattle and the suspect remains at large, Washington state authorities said.
Friday’s shooting at the Cascade Mall in Burlington also left one person critically injured, according to the Washington State Patrol. Officials earlier had reported four dead.
Sgt. Mark Francis said authorities were searching for a man wearing black and armed with a rifle who was last seen walking toward Interstate 5.
Francis said at about 8:30 p.m. that the mall had been evacuated and emergency medical personnel were cleared to enter and attend to any injuries. It wasn’t immediately clear if others were hurt.
Stephanie Bose, an assistant general manager at Johnny Carino’s Italian restaurant near the Macy’s store at the mall, said she immediately locked the doors to the restaurant after hearing about the shooting from an employee’s boyfriend.
“He was trying to go to the mall and people were screaming,” she said. “It was frantic.”
She said he could see police at the doors with assault rifles and said they were no longer guarding the doors as of 9:30 p.m.
The Cascade Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Burlington, Washington that opened in 1990, according to the mall’s website. It features J.C. Penney, TJ Maxx, and Macy’s stores, among other stores, restaurants and a movie theater.
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