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Bomb squads have shuttered a Louisiana mall to investigate four suspicious packages after a man plowed his car into a Target store and dropped 'a device' on the ground.
Police discovered the four packages - two in Hammond Square Mall, one at a Dollar General store and another in a parking lot for poultry farming company Sanderson Farms - Friday afternoon and are working to find out if they are explosives, authorities said.
Hammond police identified the suspect Friday evening as Walter Allbritton III, 41, of Ponchatoula who's accused of leaving a possible explosive device — later determined to be fake — inside the store before he was taken into police custody. He's now facing a litany of arrest counts, including terrorism and terrorizing.
A person who appears to be Allbritton posted a video on Facebook that appears to show him crashing into the Target. The video shows him referencing President Donald Trump, though it's difficult to discern the context of what he says due to loud music playing in the background.
After the crash, the man says, “You’re going to have to kill me, just like y’all do everybody else.”
The Facebook account on which the video was posted lists its employer as Target.
Allbritton is facing the following charges
-three counts of terrorism
-three counts of terrorizing
-attempted armed robbery
-resisting an officer
-attempted aggravated arson
-attempted assault with a vehicle
-aggravated criminal damage
-manufacturing and possession of delayed action incendiary device
-aggravated assault upon a peace officer