http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/us/mall-shooting-washington-state.html 2016-09-24 19:16:27 Police Hunt Gunman Who Killed 5 at Mall in Washington State The police were searching for a man who killed four women and a man at the Cascade Mall in Burlington, about 65 miles north of Seattle. === A manhunt was underway Saturday for a gunman who the police say fatally shot five people at a mall north of Seattle the night before. The attacker killed four women in the cosmetics department of a Macy’s department store at the Cascade Mall in Burlington, said Sgt. Mark Francis, a spokesman for the Washington State Patrol. The authorities transported another victim, a man who was critically wounded, to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he died, the authorities said. A local radio report said that the gunman shouted the name of a woman several times as he opened fire. The gunman, who was believed to have been armed with a rifle, left before the police arrived, and the mall was evacuated after the 7:45 p.m. shooting, Sergeant Francis said. The authorities believe there was only one gunman, but it was unclear whether he had help, Sergeant Francis said in a briefing outside the mall around midnight. The gunman was last been seen walking toward Interstate 5, he said. Gov. Jay Inslee offered condolences to the families of the victims. “Tragedy has struck in Washington tonight,” he The F.B.I. A spokesman for the F.B.I.’s Seattle field office said Saturday there was no evidence to suggest that the shooting was an act of terrorism. After the shooting, the police converged on the mall and made a store-by-store sweep of the 440,000-square-foot building, looking for survivors, some of whom had locked themselves in dressing rooms and other areas, too frightened to come out, “It becomes more commonplace obviously, these shooting situations in our country, but until you’re one of the ones inside a building like that it is really hard to describe,” Sergeant Francis told reporters. Eric Mathews, 40, who was meeting his son there, said it had been a typical Friday night at the mall, about 65 miles north of Seattle. He described it as a “teenage scene kind of thing.” Mr. Mathews arrived around the time the shooting occurred. He and his son, Kai, 16, left just before the mall was locked down, he said. Four of Kai’s friends were stuck inside after the mall was locked down, he said. “Imagine I was late or if he didn’t answer his phone,” Mr. Mathews said, referring to his son. “That stuff is running through my mind.” Stephanie Bost, an employee at Johnny Carino’s, a restaurant at the mall, said that after hearing from a customer about the shooting — about 100 yards away — “we went on lockdown.” One woman, Tari Caswell, “Then I heard seven or eight more, and I just stayed quiet in the dressing room because it just didn’t feel right,” she said. “And it got very quiet. And then I heard a lady yelling for help, and a man came and got me and another lady, and we ran out of the store.” Officials also called off the Burlington-Edison High School football game and evacuated the stadium, which is just north of the mall, T The attack was the seventh time this year in which at least four people were killed in a shooting in Washington,