On September 23, 2016, Cetin bought tickets to an evening showing of the movie
Snowden at the
Cascade Mall in
Burlington,
Washington. He propped open the theater's exit door with his cell phone and left the theater, an action reminiscent of how the
2012 Aurora shooting was carried out. However, a moviegoer found the phone and turned it in to a theater kiosk, where Cetin subsequently retrieved it.
[10] Shortly before 7:00 p.m.
PDT on the same day, Cetin walked into a
Macy's store at the Cascade Mall with a stolen rifle and opened fire,
[11][12] killing four women and one man.
[6] The male victim died the next day at a
Seattle hospital.
[13]
Video footage of the shooting, released on October 28, showed the gunman randomly targeting his victims. He first killed a woman near some clothing racks, then approached a cosmetics counter, where he killed one man and three women. All of the victims were shot at close range, while others present in the store escaped unharmed because of their distance from the shooter. Afterwards, the gunman abandoned his weapon and fled the scene in a blue four-door vehicle.
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