5 Mall of America shooting suspect arrested the suspect are detained in connection with the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old male on Friday at the Mall of America.
According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Bloomington, Minnesota, Police Chief Booker Hodges announced the arrests on Saturday and said investigators are still hunting for a sixth suspect.
SWAT police from three jurisdictions arrested two 18-year-olds and three 17-year-olds at a home in St. Louis Park, according to Hodges.
Hodges stated that investigators believe one of the 18-year-olds was the gunman, but that another suspect may have fired a weapon as well. He stated that all of the accused will face murder charges.
“If you come here and murder people at our mall in Bloomington, you get one of these at Christmas,” Hodges added, holding out an orange prison suit.
The victim of the shooting has yet to be recognized by police, but family members have identified him as Johntae Hudson, according to KARE. Ja’Nayea Hudson, 22, said her brother went to the mall to get a sweater to match his sneakers for a friend’s birthday celebration.
“He came into my room yesterday to say hello to me and my son, and then he left,” Ja’Nayea Hudson explained. “Was funny, sometimes shy, and everyone adored him. He liked meeting new people. He was looking for a place to live and applying to colleges.”
Customers fled to safety after a shooting at the country’s largest shopping center on one of the busiest shopping days of the year on Friday night.
According to investigators, a fight broke out between two groups of boys and men shortly before 8 p.m. As previously reported by CrimeOnline, security cameras captured one of them drawing a gun and shooting the victim.
A neighboring officer, one of 16 on duty at the mall that day, heard the gunshots and went to the scene. He assisted the victim, but he died on the spot as a result of several gunshot wounds.
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