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A 5-year-old suffered "significant injuries" after falling from the third floor of the famed Mall of America in Minnesota and may have been thrown or pushed, according to police, who cited witnesses.
Cops were called to the mall, in Bloomington, around 10:15 a.m. Friday after the child landed on first floor, Bloomington Police Chief Jeff Potts said at a news conference.
The suspect, a 24-year-old man, initially fled the scene but was arrested, Potts said.
Police later identified the suspect at Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda. He has been charged with attempted homicide.
What in the **** kind of barbaric savage does something like this? We have failed if this is the kind of human beings we raise.
Latest reports are that he has died.
Last edited by Toyman at Jewel Lake; 04-13-2019 at 11:32 AM..
Barbaric savagery is nothing new, sometimes they even wear fine suits and speak in even measured tones while throwing bombs at children playing in the street.
From what I've read elsewhere, the guy snatched the child from the mother and quickly did what he did. The guy has a record of harassing people and being booted from that mall. What I saw inclines me to think that the guy has mental issues - obsessive hatred, not necessarily something serious enough for him to plead insanity.
The guy definitely has mental illness issues. So this is P&C.
Our government refuses to spend any money to help the mentally ill, and the mentally will continue to hurt people and commit crimes until the US acknowledges and deals with the fact that they closed all the state psychiatric hospitals and our for profit health care system does not address these people. The government would prefer to use jails and prisons to deal with the mentally ill.
This must be the most heinous crime I've ever heard about.
Even if this little guy doesn't die, being thrown over the railing from the third floor would have resulted in severe injuries - some of them probably life-long.
Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda, 24, was charged with attempted homicide after witnesses said a man either pushed or threw the 5-year-old child on Friday morning from the Bloomington mall’s third interior level to its first, police said.
Aranda, who police said took off running after the incident, was found inside the mall’s transit station and arrested.
Authorities described the child’s injuries as life-threatening and said witnesses gave the child first aid.
“The child did suffer significant injuries,” Police Chief Jeff Potts said. “The child has been transported to the hospital and has been receiving care.”
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Aranda lives in the Bloomington area and has a series of arrests and convictions related to the mall.
He had been banned from Mall of America in the past and was convicted of misdemeanors in two incidents there in 2015, court records show.
Unless there's an update I've missed, the child has not died, but a 30 or 40 or ?? foot fall is going to cause a lot of injury.
P.S. Caution on any "latest reports" the media likes to report fast and correct later but hopefully will be more responsible than usual with a story like this.
This must be the most heinous crime I've ever heard about.
Even if this little guy didn't die, being thrown over the railing from the third floor would have resulted in severe injuries - some of them probably life-long.
I feel such sadness and anger about this.
And if he was just snatched from family like that. There are so many crazy people that walk among us. My biggest fear is to have some crazy person push any of my kids off the subway platform. I hold my daughters hand so tight.
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