SEATTLE, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The 20-year-old suspect in a Seattle shopping mall shooting spree and hostage-taking told friends via text messaging he wanted the world to feel his anger.
Dominick Maldonado was being held Monday on six counts of assault and three counts of kidnapping, in lieu of $450,000 bail after the incident midday Sunday.
Of the six shooting victims, one was listed in critical condition at Tacoma General Hospital suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, the Seattle Times reported.
A man wearing a dress shirt and tie walked into the Tacoma Mall firing at least 20 shots randomly with an assault-style rifle. He then took four hostages in a music store for four hours, but released a 9-year-old boy.
Mary Simon, the mother of Maldonado's ex-girlfriend, said her daughter got a text message from Maldonado minutes before the shooting started.
"It was lengthy, six or seven sentences, but the upshot was, 'The world is going to feel my pain,'" Simon said.
