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WTOP: Suspect Connected to Military Building Shootings

Yonathan Melaku was arrested last week for a bomb scare near the Pentagon.

Forensic evidence links Yonathan Melaku to shootings  last fall at military buildings in Northern Virginia, WTOP reports.

Melaku, 22, was arrested last week after .

He was detained near Arlington National Cemetery.

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According to the WTOP article:

"Four targets were shot at last fall, including the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle twice, along with a Coast Guard recruiting station at the Potomac Mills mall, a Marine Corps recruitment center in Chantilly and the Pentagon."

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