Suspect in mall shooting has a history of trouble
three months and said she was so frightened by him that she complained to apartment management and kept a stun gun handy. Cathey said she blocked him on Snapchat after he sent her a photo of his crotch.
“He was really creepy, rude and obnoxious,” Cathey said. The two were in high school together as well, and Cathey said he acted the same way then.
The Seattle Times reported that court records show Cetin faced three charges of assaulting his stepfather. The newspaper said Cetin also was arrested on drunken driving charges.
In the assault case, Cetin was told by a judge last December that he was not to possess a gun, the newspaper reported. The stepfather, however, urged the judge not to impose a no-contact order, saying his stepson was “going through a hard time.”
Cetin appeared to have blogs on the site Tumblr that had not been updated in many months. They included posts about serial killer Ted Bundy, the top-secret Area 51 Cold War test site and photos of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Cetin took part in his high school’s ROTC program with former classmate Matthew McClimans, who described the suspect as “a pretty normal guy, but he was a little bit weird.”
The names of the dead were not released. The Seattle Times identified one as 16-year-old Sarai Lara. Authorities in suburban Seattle identified another victim as Belinda Galde, 64, a probation officer with the Snohomish County District Court.