A regional center for high-end, one of the most important commercial centers in a large part of northern California, was dismissed on Thursday after police arrested a man who had barricaded himself inside were arrested.Police said the man barricaded himself in a video game store Roseville Galleria and started a small fire broke my arm the entire Mall biggest fire damaged.
Gallery of 1,300,000 square meters was broken at the time of the fire and were evacuated to the roof, and were not injured.City officials said part of the roof of the southern part of the mall collapsed. After the smoke cleared, a head of television pictures showed the charred remains of shops, many of which have been stripped.
Roseville Fire Department spokesman Dennis Mathisen said the fire, a wing of the mall, a few hundred meters between two tenants appeared to expand Macy's and JC Penney burned. He said that water and smoke damage was extensive behind the scenes.
The Gallery, about 17 miles east of the capital, generated more than $ 3,200,000 for the municipal tax on income of annual sales and could be closed or restricted activities for months.
"This is a shot. It 's sad," said Mayor Gina Garbolino Roseville journalists.He said city officials would be all that could be turned into the mall to do "as soon as possible."The mall is fully closed until authorities decide whether parts of it can reopen.The police raided the mall shortly after 10:30 when a man claims to have entered a gun shop and said GameStop employees.
"He told me of his family. The employees of GameStop, said it was more or less incoherent," said police Lt. Mike Doane Roseville.Employees said the man then locked himself in a back room and started a fire. He had hidden in the shop as a SWAT team to the mall, and was arrested without further incident.
The authorities thought that the sprinkler system had extinguished the fire center. But police later said the fire started, as members of the Bomb Squad kind of control to see if the bag contained explosives, forcing them to leave the building.
Roseville Police later identified the man as 23-year-old Girl Alexander Corney, but said that his name can be written Piggee. The man was unarmed when arrested, said Doane.A Facebook page for someone with the same name - and spelled "Piggee" - said to live in Sacramento and lists his hometown as Stockton.
KCRA 3 in Sacramento, interviewed the mother of the man, who said the family home several months ago because he was old enough to be told to live on their own. Since then he has been rotating among the members of the family, said the woman, Mary Carter."It 's been a bad boy. I do not know what happened," said KCRA.
He continued that his son had developed mental health problems in recent years and recently fired from a fast food chain Burger.The man was arrested by police in a local hospital during the day.
Mathisen said that the sprinkler systems control the flames on Thursday night, apparently the fire was unauthorized"The fire was able to get the benefits of the irrigation system," he said.
Fire units assisted the surrounding communities, extinguished the flames, which can be seen for miles around the capital region and have a lasting impact on the economy of the area.
"We were all talking about how this might affect the parties - can not be worse," said Michele Blanco near Rocklin, often came to the Galleria at 5:00 am for "Black Friday" sales after Thanksgiving."Especially after a series of high end shops are the people who come here just to buy," he said. "They came here instead of San Francisco."
The mall's 240 stores managed by Westfield Corp., was built in 2000 and includes a Nordstrom. It 'was very $ 270,000,000 expansion, completed in 2008 by Louis Vuitton, Burberry and Tiffany and other high end shops.