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Posted: 11/21/05 - 14:17 Post subject:
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Alleged Tacoma Shooter Sent Text Warnings
TACOMA, Washington (CNN) -- A man accused of taking hostages and shooting six people at a shopping mall Sunday sent a cell-phone text message warning about his rampage to his ex-girlfriend, she said Monday.
The woman, Tiffany Robison, said shooting suspect Dominick Maldonado sent the message Sunday morning, six months after they broke up.
"He sent me one text message saying that the world is going to feel his anger, feel his pain, that today is the day he's going to be heard," she told CNN's "American Morning."
Police said a man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire on people inside the Tacoma Mall on Sunday afternoon and then barricaded himself in a music store, taking three employees hostage.
Maldonado, 20, is being held at the Pierce County Jail, according to its Web site, on six counts of felony assault and three counts of felony kidnapping.
Five of the six shooting victims had minor injuries, said Jon Lendosky, Tacoma's deputy fire chief. Todd Kelley, a spokesman for Tacoma General Hospital, said one person arrived in critical condition.
In addition to the text messages, Robison said Maldonado called her from the mall's Sam Goody music store while he was holding hostages.
"He's like, 'I'm crazy, I'm crazy ... I gotta let you go, I'm on the other line with the police,' and that was the end of that," she said.
Robison said Maldonado also apologized for being rude to her recently and said he really cared about her.
Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum said the suspect was taken into custody after negotiations and the hostages were unharmed.
Robison said that Maldonado had had some problems in his life and that about a year ago, he began to talk about "doing something stupid."
She said when she learned what happened, she initially was shocked and upset.
"I just think that he had something going on," she said, "and it all built up and finally he did what he did."
Bret Strickler, who said he was Maldonado's best friend, told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer he received a similar text message while Maldonado was holding the hostages, The Associated Press reported.
Inside the mall Sunday, Stacy Wilson, 29, heard a popping noise and turned around, the AP reported. "I saw the gunman randomly shooting. I ran with a group of women to Victoria's Secret," Wilson told the AP. She told the AP they crouched behind a wall in the store, and when the shooting stopped, an employee ran out and closed a security gate at the front.
Wilson said she heard 15 to 20 shots, according to the AP.
"He was walking backward and shooting. I couldn't see his face," she told the AP. "Everyone was running and screaming."
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Sutto
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Posted: 11/21/05 - 14:18 Post subject:
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Gunman sent messages
10:11 AM PST on Monday, November 21, 2005
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TACOMA, Wash. - A man accused of going on a shooting spree at a crowded shopping mall sent a text message to his ex-girlfriend minutes before the rampage saying he was about to show the world his anger, the woman said.
Six people were injured, one critically, in the attack.
Dominick Sergio Maldonado, 20, of Tacoma, surrendered Sunday about four hours after he took three hostages at a music store, all of whom were released unharmed, authorities said. He was being held in the Pierce County Jail on six counts of assault and three of kidnapping with bail set at $450,000.
Tiffany Robison, Maldonado's former girlfriend, said he sent her a text message shortly before noon reading: "Today is the day that the world will know my anger."
"I knew something was going to happen, he was going to do something really crazy like this, but I had know idea it was going to be like this," she told KING 5 News.
She said he also contacted her during the standoff.
"He called me and said he just shot up the Tacoma Mall and he's in the Sam Goody taking hostages," Robison said. "I think honestly that he just wanted attention. It's the sick attention that he wanted."
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Robison said Maldonado had a rough childhood and that she believed some of his behavior could be influenced by drugs. She broke up with Maldonaldo 6 months ago because she feared for her safety.
"He said he was screaming for help for years that nobody helped him, nobody heard him," she said.
In a press release Sunday, Gov. Christine Gregoire said a rapid, well-coordinated response by police, firefighters, Pierce County sheriff's deputies and State Patrol troopers "prevented a potentially much worse outcome."
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Witness Colin Agostini took this camera phone image of police in the mall.
The first report came in a telephone call about 12:15 p.m. when someone said a gunman "was in the mall, walking along, firing," police officer Mark W. Fulghum said.
State Patrol and other law enforcement officers quickly assembled around an entrance at the south end mall.
Betz Dejarnatt, who works at the J.C. Penney store, said workers were herded into dressing rooms and offices before police took them out to a parking lot.
Fulghum said detectives were interviewing the victims and the hostages, two men and a woman, to determine what happened during the nearly standoff.
Suspect's record
January 1998
Burglary and possession of stolen property
PLEAD GUILTY
October 1998
Residential burglary and theft
PLEAD GUILTY
September 1999
Theft and having or making burglar tools
PLEAD GUILTY
December 1999
Trafficking in stolen property
PLEAD GUILTY
March 2003
Burglary
GUILTY
Stacy Wilson, 29, of Bonney Lake, said she was shopping when she heard a popping noise and turned around.
"I saw the gunman randomly shooting. I ran with a group of women to Victoria's Secret," Wilson said. She said they crouched behind a wall in the store, and when the shooting stopped an employee ran out and closed a security gate at the front.
Wilson said she heard 15 to 20 shots.
"He was walking backward and shooting. I couldn't see his face," she said. "Everyone was running and screaming."
One man told KING 5 News the gunman was smiling as he fired an assault r ifle in bursts of four to five shots.
A woman who said she made eye contact with the "very clean-cut" gunman before he opened fire told NorthWest Cable News, "When I heard the shooting I thought, 'This is a joke. ... I couldn't believe this was actually happening, that someone would do this."
Court records show Maldonado has an extensive juvenile criminal history dating back to 1998, including convictions for burglary, theft and possession of burglary tools and a court order not to possess any weapons.
Records also show that after Maldonado was convicted of burglary and theft, he was ordered to undergo random drug testing and treatment.
Maldonado worked at a local Subway sandwich outlet until about four months ago, co-workers said. Ryan Gilman, who said Maldonado had trained him on the night shift, described him as quiet but "twitchy."
Another co-worker, Edward Zeke, said he was a gun enthusiast and "unstable, with a drug problem."
Robison said the couple broke up months earlier "because of an issue with a drug."
http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_112105WABtacomamallSW.193a08e2.html
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Posted: 11/21/05 - 15:20 Post subject:
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post count +4!!!
this may be a record
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Silvermouse
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Posted: 11/21/05 - 15:43 Post subject:
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Hmmm. It says last login was today. Maybe it counts admin logins?
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Ishmael
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Posted: 11/21/05 - 16:34 Post subject:
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| Silvermouse wrote: | | Hmmm. It says last login was today. Maybe it counts admin logins? |
If you read the blog or whatever it sounds like someone who knew his info logged in, and is asking for it to be deleted lol.
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Finigan
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Posted: 11/21/05 - 16:35 Post subject:
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| Ishmael wrote: | | Silvermouse wrote: | | Hmmm. It says last login was today. Maybe it counts admin logins? |
If you read the blog or whatever it sounds like someone who knew his info logged in, and is asking for it to be deleted lol. |
Or maybe he was checking his account from BEYOND THE GRAAAAAAVE!!!
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Ishmael
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Posted: 11/21/05 - 16:36 Post subject:
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| Finigan wrote: | | Ishmael wrote: | | Silvermouse wrote: | | Hmmm. It says last login was today. Maybe it counts admin logins? |
If you read the blog or whatever it sounds like someone who knew his info logged in, and is asking for it to be deleted lol. |
Or maybe he was checking his account from BEYOND THE GRAAAAAAVE!!! |
EEP.
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