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Cascade Mall shooting victim's mother speaks out

Evangelina Lara stood in the embrace of her family, talking about the unthinkable. She, her husband, and their 16-year-old daughter, Sarai, went to the Cascade Mall together Friday night.

But they split up and Sarai went into Macy's. That is the last time she saw her daughter alive.

"She just wants to say that she wants justice for her daughter because she was just going shopping," said Lara through a translator. "She wants justice and the store to take responsibility for what happened."

Lara says Macy's failed to protect her child.

"She wants the store to take responsibility," said Lara's translator. "Because they didn't have any security that was trained to take care of a situation like this."

Indeed, no one was able to stop alleged shooter, Arcan Cetin, as he continued on his murderous rampage.

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Also killed were 64-year-old Belinda Galde, a probation officer based in Arlington, and her 95-year-old mother, Beatrice Dotson.

A fourth victim, also a woman, worked as a "makeup stylist" at the Macy's cosmetics counter.

Two Mount Vernon High School classmates of Sarai sought solace at a vigil in Sedro-Woolley Saturday tonight.

"We had two classes together and we had lunch also together," said Selena Orozco, her voice breaking. "I mean we took our last pictures together also."

"Our school is going to be wearing pink and purple for her on Monday," said Rachel Marsh. "Just to show our respects."

There is a fifth victim, a man, who died at Harborview Medical Center.

There are pictures of Belinda Galde and her mother all over social media. But her family asked us not to use them because they have not been formally notified they are dead.