Mall Murder: Washington State Police are hunting for a man who shot and killed five people in a shopping mall in Burlington, in the northwest corner of the state. He killed four women in the cosmetics department of the Macy’s store. A fifth victim, a man, died in the hospital. The gunman, who was believed to have been armed with a rifle, left the mall before the police arrived.

Video News: The wife of Keith Scott, who was shot dead by Charlotte, NC, police on Tuesday, took cellphone video in which you can hear her pleading with her husband to cooperate, begging the cops not to shoot, and telling them her husband didn’t have a gun.

She said “He has a TBI,” the abbreviation for traumatic brain injury. Her husband had a motorcycle accident last year.  “He’s not going to do anything to you guys,” Rakeyia Scott said. “He just took his medicine.”

Screaming obscenities and “drop the gun,” eventually the police shot Scott. Although you can hear the gunshots, the video does not show the shooting, and doesn’t reveal what, if anything, Scott had in his hand.

The police department is under increasing pressure to release its own video.

It’s Political: Evidently God is a Republican. Ted Cruz, who avoided endorsing Donald Trump after a nasty primary season, says he will vote for his party’s man. He said on Facebook, “After many months of careful consideration, of prayer and searching my own conscience, I have decided that on Election Day, I will vote for the Republican nominee, Donald Trump.”

Cruz once said, “Donald, you’re a sniveling coward,” but now he says he will vote for the sniveling coward.

Nation: President Obama vetoed a bill that would allow the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for complicity in the attacks. Congress might have the votes to override, which would be a first for Obama.

Permawar: Syrian and Russian forces are pounding rebel-held areas of Aleppo, and possibly preparing to launch a major ground offensive. The ceasefire said to be so critical by Secy. of State John Kerry is dead. Kerry has argued that if you can’t end the fighting, there’s no way to stop the crisis of migration into Europe.

Egypt has recovered the bodies of 162 migrants who died when their boat capsized off the coast of Rosetta, the Nile Delta port city east of Alexandria.

The Obit Page: John D. Loudermilk, a country singer and songwriter who wrote many hits including “Tobacco Road,” “Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye,” and “Indian Reservation,” died at home in Tennessee at age 82.  “Tobacco Road,” was the product of his impoverished upbringing. Originally performed by the Nashville Teens in 1964, it was covered many times.

“Growin’ up, rusty shack

All I had was hangin’ on my back

Only you know how I loathe

This place called Tobacco Road”

Clowning Around: Police in Middlesboro, Ky., arrested a man lurking in the woods wearing a clown costume. Amid a wave of creepy clown sightings that includes South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia, this appears to be the first time anyone has caught a clown. Police in Barboursville issued a statement saying, “While dressing up is not, in and of itself against the law, doing so in public and thereby creating an unnecessary sense of alarm is illegal.”

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