The man charged with throwing a 5-year-old boy off a balcony at the Mall of America told police he was angry at being rejected by women at the mall and was “looking for someone to kill” when he went there last week, according to a criminal complaint.
Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda was arrested in connection with an incident at the Mall of America where a 5-year-old boy plummeted three floors on Friday. The boy is hospitalized with head trauma and broken bones.
Emmanuel Aranda, 24, of Minneapolis, is charged with attempted premeditated first-degree murder in Friday’s attack . The child plunged almost 40 feet and is fighting for his life in a Minneapolis hospital with head trauma and broken bones.Aranda has two past convictions for assaults at the mall, both in 2015, including one in which he threw a glass of water and glass of tea at a woman who refused to buy him something. Aranda at one point was banned from the mall.
The boy’s mother told police that Aranda came up very close to her group as they stood outside the Rainforest Cafe restaurant. She said she asked him if they were in his way and should move, and he picked up the child without warning and threw him off the balcony, according to the complaint. “Defendant indicated he had been coming to the Mall for several years and had made efforts to talk to women in the Mall, but had been rejected, and the rejection caused him to lash out and be aggressive,” the complaint said.
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