The Washington State Patrol on Saturday night captured the gunman who left five people dead in a mall near Seattle earlier in the day. Authorities said Arcan Cetin – a Turkish immigrant and a legal permanent US resident – did not resist arrest, CNN reported.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation had said before Cetin's arrest that there was "no evidence at this time" to link the shooting at Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington, to terrorism. However, Washington state authorities believe it is too early to rule out terrorism because they were still in the initial stages their investigation.

The police had put out picture of the shooter and described him as "a Hispanic male wearing grey" clothes, possibly in his teens or early twenties. He will be handed over to the Skagit County Sheriff’s Office, the Seattle Times reported.

Four women were killed at the mall, around 107 km north of Seattle, and a man died of his injuries in hospital. Mayor of Burlington Steve Sexton had said after the attack that this "senseless act" had changed the city forever. "It was the world knocking on our doorstep, and it came to our little community here," he added.