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Four women are dead and a man critically injured after a mass shooting at a shopping center in Burlington, Washington.

Washington police are hunting for a “Hispanic male” wearing a black T-shirt armed with a rifle who opened fire in the shopping mall near Seattle.

The Cascade Mall and nearby shops have been evacuated and police have asked the public to stay away. The motive for the attack is not clear.

Image source Washington State Patrol

Image source Washington State Patrol

The suspect was seen heading towards the Interstate 5.

Washington State Patrol spokesman Mark Francis said the fatalities had taken place inside Macy’s department store.

Emergency medical teams had entered the shopping mall “to attend to injured” and people were being evacuated to a nearby church, he said.

Mark Francis said the gunman had left the scene before police arrived and was last seen walking towards a highway.

Emergency management officials have told residents to stay inside with their doors locked and avoid the area near the Cascade Mall. Drivers are being urged to keep nearby major roads clear.

The FBI, which is assisting in the investigation, says there is no evidence that further attacks are planned in Washington State.

Burlington is about 65 miles north of Seattle.

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Police have praised the bravery of a Seattle Pacific University student for disarming a gunman who had killed one person and wounded three others.

The student overcame the gunman on the campus of Seattle Pacific University as he tried to reload, police said. Pepper spray was used to subdue the attacker.

Police said the actions of the student, and others who came to his aid, prevented a more serious tragedy.

The gun suspect has been named as Aaron Ybarra, 26, who is in custody.

Police have praised the bravery of a Seattle Pacific University student for disarming a gunman who had killed one person and wounded three others

Police have praised the bravery of a Seattle Pacific University student for disarming a gunman who had killed one person and wounded three others

Police say he is being investigated for murder. They say he was not a student at the university and was believed to have been acting alone.

He is reported to have been carrying a shotgun and a knife before opening fire after walking into the foyer of the university.

“But for the great response at Seattle Pacific University (SPU) this incident might have been much more tragic,” Seattle police spokesman Paul McDonagh told a news conference.

SPU President Daniel Martin told the Seattle Times that the students who overpowered the gunman “acted without regard to their own safety on behalf of others”.

“We are a community and we care for others,” Daniel Martin was quoted as saying.

“Those that were involved did just that.”

He said that students and university personnel have procedures in place for when a shooting occurs, which was one reason why the gunman was subdued so quickly.

Hospital officials in the Washington state city said the person killed was a man in his 20s. A woman is also in a very serious condition with a gunshot wound to her upper body.

The other two injuries were sustained by men in their 20s. One is in a stable condition and the other has minor wounds to the abdomen.

In a statement, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray referred to previous fatal shootings in the city and added: “Once again the epidemic of gun violence has come to Seattle, the epidemic of gun violence that is haunting this nation.”

SPU is a privately run Christian university which has about 4,270 undergraduate and graduate students inside a 40-acre campus about 10 minutes from central Seattle.

The US has recently suffered a spate of shootings in or near colleges.

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