It was the second mass killing in as many days. On Friday, five people who had been kidnapped were killed execution-style in the coastal province of Manabi by an armed gang.
The police said when the first officers arrived at the home the family's father was outside and screaming for someone to call 911. Sri Lanka's high commission said that it is in touch with relatives in the country's capital, Colombo.
All the victims were taken to hospitals, and the teenager died at a hospital, said police.
US Representative Keith Self, who represents the area that includes the mall, said he had confirmed with law enforcement that the shooter is dead and that there was no one else involved in the attack.
The suspect, identified as 38-year-old Francisco Oropeza, remained at large more than 18 hours after the shooting and authorities warned that he might still be armed.
As per reports, authorities are searching for a potentially armed suspect, a young Indian man associated with a black Honda car and wearing a hoodie.
The crimes began in rural Bowdoin, where the bodies were found, and continued with gunfire 40 kilometres to the south on Interstate 295 in Yarmouth, police said. One of the three highway victims was critically wounded, police said.
Louisville mass shooting: The live-streaming of such a tragic incident has again raised grave questions on social media platforms which have been claiming to place a proper mechanism to prohibit the promotion of heinous acts on their platforms.
Baghdad: Islamic State group militants publicly shot dead 36 Sunni tribesmen, women and children Monday, an Iraqi official and a tribal leader said, pushing the total number of people the extremists have killed from the
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