Washington: A suspect in the fatal shooting of five people at a Washington state mall was taken into custody on Saturday, Washington State Patrol spokesman Keith Leary said in a telephone interview.
The Washington State Patrol in a message on Twitter also confirmed a person had been taken into custody.
A manhunt was underway on Saturday in northwest Washington state for the gunman, authorities said.
The suspect entered the Cascade Mall in Burlington, around 65 miles (105 km) north of Seattle, and began shooting at about 7 pm local time on Friday in the cosmetics section of a Macy's department store, police said.
The unidentified suspect, who police described on Twitter as an Hispanic male, initially walked into the shopping center without the rifle but surveillance video later caught him brandishing the weapon, said Lt. Chris Cammock of the Mount Vernon Police Department at briefing on Saturday.
The rifle was later recovered at the mall, said Cammock, who is commander of the Skagit County Multi-Agency Response Team.
Four women were killed in the rampage, which police believe was carried out by a lone gunman. Later a man who was seriously wounded in the shooting died at a local hospital. None of the victims were identified.
