'Senseless killings': Police release new details in Greenwood Park Mall shooting
Police release new details in the Greenwood Park Mall shooting.
A 20-year-old man walked to Greenwood Mall Park on Sunday and headed straight to the bathroom. Inside the backpack he carried were two rifles. Also in his possession — more than 100 rounds of ammunition and a pistol.
One hour and two minutes later, he walked out of the restroom and opened fire into the food court, carrying out a mass shooting minutes before the mall's closing that police said rocked them to their core.
The shooter was identified Monday as Jonathan Douglas Sapirman.
In the hours after the shooting, police raided the gunman’s apartment, located approximately a mile away from the mall. Ison said officers found the apartment’s oven turned on to a “high temperature” with a laptop and a can of butane inside.
Ison said he wouldn’t speculate on the gunman's intentions regarding the oven, but noted police retrieved the laptop, which has heat damage, and is being sent to Quantico, Virginia for the FBI to analyze. Police also retrieved a cellphone from a toilet in the mall’s bathroom that the gunman is believed to have dropped before the shooting spree.
Police said they have not determined a motive in the shooting, but on Monday shared a timeline of events based on surveillance video and interviews.
Surveillance video showed the gunman walked into the mall at 4:54 p.m. through the building’s entrance near the food court, Ison said. He went directly to the food court restroom wearing a waistband holster with several magazines. In his backpack were a Sig Sauer Model 400m rifle — the only gun he used in the shooting — and an M&P 15 5.56 rifle. On his person was a Glock 33 pistol.
Officials say the shooter practiced with the guns that were purchased at a Greenwood gun store March 8-9.