Six people were killed in a shopping mall in Salt Lake City, but the mass shooting incident doesn't seem to be getting much attention as national news. Normally, such shopping mall shooting sprees do.

As to the motive, according to a local news report, it might be related to the man's "upbringing":

A family friend, who didn't want to be identified, told us Talovic's upbringing may have played a role. He was a Muslim-Bosnian, born in war-torn Bosnia. Talovic has lived in Utah for the past several years. He dropped out of high school in 2004.

The family friend said Talovic had a tough time interacting with people and dealing with traumatic episodes. That may be why neighbors who lived near the Talovics for years don't know the first thing about him.

John Buddensick, Neighbor: "Me or my family, or pretty much anybody on my side of the street never came in contact with Sulejmen or any of his friends or anything like that. So to hear that this happened is somewhat shocking because you really didn't know who he was."

Whether there were indicators or not, police say Talovic planned on killing as many people as possible at Trolley Square. Talovic carried with him a .38 caliber pistol, a shotgun, a backpack full of ammunition and a bandoleer of shotgun shells into the mall.

So, all we have to go on is that this is a local shooting that may have been caused by an "upbringing."

I'd like to know more.

At this point, all I can conclude is that it's another good argument for carrying concealed.

UPDATE: Flashback to 1929, in which the infamous "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" captivated the nation's imagination. The mass shooting has never been forgotten, even though the victims were not innocent bystanders, but rival gang members.

I guess what made that different was that seven people were killed, but Sulejmen Talovic killed only six?

Via Michelle Malkin, I see that Charles Johnson is wondering whether this might be Sudden Jihad Syndrome.

If it is, we'll never know. I mean, if it's hurtful to call people crazy, "Sudden Jihad Syndrome" would probably be a disease that dare not speak its name.

UPDATE: Via Glenn Reynolds, Mary Katherine Ham has pointed out that the race of criminal suspects may not be mentioned unless they are white.

In the case of the Salt Lake City suspect, it's his religion that may not be mentioned (at least, not by the AP).

I have a feeling that if a family friend had said that the shooter's fundamentalist Christian upbringing may have played a role, that this pertinent fact might have made it into the AP story.