LYNNWOOD, Wash. (KING) – A 16-year-old boy is in custody for allegedly shooting a 13-year-old girl at a mall food court in Washington state on Wednesday.

Around 6 p.m. on Tuesday, police said an 11-year old girl went inside the women's restroom at the food court inside Town Center Mall. Her father waited for her outside the restroom.

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The girl was just an innocent bystander. “I grew up in this area. I went to this mall, still frequent, so to have this kind of violence, senseless violence, here is upsetting,” Lynnwood police Deputy ...

The girl was just an innocent bystander. “I grew up in this area. I went to this mall, still frequent, so to have this kind of violence, senseless violence, here is upsetting,” Lynnwood police Deputy ...

LYNNWOOD, Wash. (KING) – A 16-year-old boy is in custody for allegedly shooting a 13-year-old girl at a mall food court in Washington state on Wednesday.

The girl was just an innocent bystander. “I grew up in this area. I went to this mall, still frequent, so to have this kind of violence, senseless violence, here is upsetting,” Lynnwood police Deputy ...