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Southcenter Mall Shooting Suspect Arrested, Booked

Updated: 12:44 pm PST November 27, 2008

The suspect in the Southcenter Mall shooting has been booked into the Multnomah County Jail in Portland. Police released his booking photo.

Police arrested the suspect in the Southcenter Mall shooting following a four-day manhunt, said David Gehrke, an attorney for the suspect’s family.

Barry Saunders, 21, was picked up in Portland, Ore. at about 2 p.m. Wednesday said Gehrke.

Police were responding to another call and Saunders was involved in that incident, said Mike Murphy of the Tukwila Police Department. Once Portland police realized who he was they took him into custody without incident.

"He wasn't forthcoming about his name. He lied about his identity, but he didn't fight physically. And we were able to identify him by communicating back and forth, sending pictures back and forth and that sort of thing,” Murphy said.

Saunders will see a judge in Portland before being extradited to King County. Murphy said he does not know Saunders got to Portland.

Saunders is physically okay, but an emotional wreck, Gehrke said.

Gerke said he will advise his client to not fight extradition from Oregon and to come up to King County as soon as possible and face the charges against him.

Saunders is charged with second-degree murder and first-degree assault in Saturday's shooting in which a teenager was killed and another was wounded.

Barry Saunders
Barry Saunders

Earlier Wednesday, David Gehrke, an attorney for Saunders' family, asked Saunders to turn himself in, saying it's the first step toward ending violence among young people.

"When are people going to learn that you don't get anywhere that way? Look at the resources, the lives, the productivity that we could have gotten from all these dead kids in Seattle. It's got to stop. And it's got to stop with Barry turning himself in. It's got to stop with people realizing that's not how you resolve things," Gehrke said.

Police said the shooting began as a fist fight between two groups of young men and it ended with 17-year-old Daiquan Jones shot to death and another 15-year-old wounded.

Daiquin L. Jones

Police said they have three reasons that they're certain Saunders was the triggerman: eyewitnesses, mall surveillance and evidence found at the scene all point directly to Saunders.

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