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<h6><span style="color: #302626;"><strong>Emmanuel Aranda, 24, pled guilty Tuesday to attempted premeditated first-degree murder in April 12 attack on Landen Hoffman in Bloomington Minnesota</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #302626;"><strong>Aranda, 24, </strong></span><span style="color: #302626;"><strong> faces 19 years in prison after telling police he went there &#8216;looking for someone to kill&#8217; when he threw five-year-old Hoffman </strong></span><span style="color: #302626;"><strong>from a third floor balcony at Mall of America, on Apr 12</strong></span><span style="color: #302626;"><strong> </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #302626;"><strong>Hoffman suffered head trauma and broken bones in the fall, but survived &#8211; His family said he is alert</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #302626;"><strong>Aranda told police he was angry at being rejected by women at the mall and was &#8216;looking for someone to kill&#8217; when he went there </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #302626;"><strong>His mother told reporters her son suffers from mental health problems and does not belong in prison </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #302626;"><strong>Becky Aranda said in an interview that a few days before attack, Emmanuel showed up at his sister&#8217;s home looking &#8216;like a zombie&#8217; and punched her </strong></span></h6>
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<strong>Emmanuel Aranda, 24 [photo], pled guilty on Tuesday to attempted premeditated first-degree murder in the April 12 mall attack on five-year-old Landen Hoffman </strong></span></h6>
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<div class="share-count"><span style="font-size: inherit;">A Minneapolis man pled guilty this morning to throwing five-year-old Landen Hoffman from a third-floor balcony at Mall of America last month and faces 19 years in prison.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Emmanuel Aranda on Tuesday accepted responsibility for attempted premeditated first-degree murder in the April 12 attack that left Landen with head trauma and multiple broken bones but survived.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Aranda, 24, will be sentenced on June 3. His plea deal calls for prosecutors to drop an aggravated-circumstances component to the charge that could have meant an additional year in prison.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Prosecutor Cheri Ann Townsend said the Hoffman family supports the plea agreement.</span></div>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="font-size: inherit;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-319121" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Landen-Hoffman-1-230x300.png" alt="" width="583" height="760" /><strong>Aranda allegedly said he &#8216;planned to kill an adult, because they usually stand near the balcony, but he chose the victim instead&#8217; the assailant allegedly told police after he tried killing five-year-old Landen Hoffman [photo] on Apr 12</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><span style="font-size: inherit;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-319120" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Landen-Hoffman-2-300x170.png" alt="" width="596" height="338" />Emergency personnel are seen tending to Landen Hoffman after the five-year-old boy was thrown down off the balcony by Arande. He landed 40 feet below, on the stone floor at Mall of America, in Bloomington, Minnesota last month</span></strong></h6>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="font-size: inherit;">Police arrested Aranda moments after the attack as he waited to board a light-rail train at the mall, and said he had quickly admitted to the attack.<br />
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</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">A criminal complaint filed soon after the attack said Aranda told police he was angry at being rejected by women at the mall and was &#8216;looking for someone to kill&#8217; when he went there.<br />
Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda,</span><span style="font-size: inherit;"> 24, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspect-arrested-after-5-year-old-plummets-mall-america-balcony-n993931">threw</a> a 5-year-old from the 3rd floor balcony of the Mall of America located in Blooming-ton, Minnesota. He then took off running after throwing the child from the balcony.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Taken into custody, Aranda allegedly told police he &#8216;planned to kill an adult, because they usually stand near the balcony, but he chose the victim instead.&#8217;<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">He had two past convictions for assaults at the mall, both in 2015, and had been banned from the property at one point.<br />
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</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Court records showed that Aranda had been ordered to undergo psychological evaluation or treatment after those assaults, and his attorney Paul Sellers said Aranda had been in mental health court.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Aranda, wearing an orange jail jumpsuit, spoke quietly during Tuesday&#8217;s hearing while giving yes-or-no answers to questions aimed at making sure he understood what he was admitting.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">When asked if he knew that throwing the boy over the balcony could have killed him, the defendant replied, &#8216;Yes.&#8217;<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Following the brief hearing, Aranda&#8217;s mother, Becky, told reporters her son does not belong in prison because he has been battling mental health problems since childhood and requires treatment, the </span><a class="class" style="font-size: inherit;" href="http://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-man-pleads-guilty-to-throwing-5-year-old-boy-over-moa-balcony/509904532/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Minneapolis Star-Tribune</a>, reports.</div>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="font-size: inherit;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-319132" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Emmanuel-Aranda-4-300x177.png" alt="" width="610" height="360" /><strong>The criminal complaint stated that Aranda,[photo], told police he was angry at being rejected by women at the mall and was &#8216;looking for someone to kill&#8217; when he went there</strong></span></h6>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="font-size: inherit;">His mother said her son has mental health issues and does not belong in prison.</span></div>
<div class="mobile-gallery-icon"><span style="font-size: inherit;">She also said the family were &#8216;really shocked&#8217; by the random attack on the boy.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">&#8216;We had no idea that his illness would drive him to doing this,&#8217; Becky Aranda said of her son.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">In a recent interview with </span><a class="class" style="font-size: inherit;" href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/05/14/mother-of-alleged-moa-kidtosser-tells-his-story" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Minnesota Public Radio</a><span style="font-size: inherit;">, the defendant&#8217;s mother revealed that a few nights before the April 12 incident, Emmanuel showed up at his sister&#8217;s home, punched her in the face and left.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;"><span style="font-size: inherit;">&#8216;She said he just was like a zombie,&#8217; the mom recounted. &#8216;She looked into his eyes, it&#8217;s like he didn&#8217;t have any soul&#8230; it was like another force that had taken over.&#8217;<br />
Records show that Aranda&#8217;s</span></span><span style="font-size: inherit;"> anger issues date back to when he was living in Chicago. Aranda had an outburst at a restaurant in 2014, where he smashed a dinner plate over a customer’s head.</p>
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He then grabbed a knife and proceeded to threaten other customers and chase them through the restaurant. A server there, who still fears Aranda, described the terror.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">“People were literally putting children under tables because he was saying, ‘I’m going to stab somebody and kill somebody,’” the server said.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">The behavior continued when Aranda moved to Minneapolis to be with his sister. He was banned for a time from Mall of America for threatening patrons. He also was cited for smashing computers at a Minneapolis public library.</span><span style="font-size: inherit;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">Hoffman, the victim of his latest outburst, plunged almost 40 feet and suffered head trauma and multiple broken bones.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">His family released a statement in late April saying he was alert and no longer in critical condition. On Monday, the family said he continues to heal and requested &#8216;prayers and privacy.&#8217;<br />
</span><span style="font-size: inherit;">A </span><a class="class" style="font-size: inherit;" href="https://www.gofundme.com/landonprayers?utm_source=facebook&;utm_medium=social&;utm_campaign=fb_u_g&;fbclid=IwAR0PxbRnwS1HRkdGZDN6ymn2fa0NAN7wDTXRLk5lcg80QJiB0X8HzBKAx2g" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">fundraising page</a><span style="font-size: inherit;"> has topped $1.022 million to cover the young boy&#8217;s medical costs. </span></div>
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I went there ‘looking for someone to kill!’ Child-attacker pleads guilty to throwing five-year-old boy from balcony at Mall of America; Emmanuel Aranda, 24, faces 19 years in prison
