Emmanuel Aranda, who threw a boy from the balcony of the Mall of America, went to the mall with the intention of killing someone, the authorities said.

Minneapolis – The man accused of throwing a 5-year-old boy from the third floor balcony of the Mall of America told the police that he was sorry to have been rejected by women at the center. Minnesota commercial and that he "was looking for someone to kill" when he went there last week, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday.

Emmanuel Aranda, 24, of Minneapolis, is charged with attempted first degree murder with premeditation during Friday's attack. The child dipped nearly 20 meters and struggled for life in a Minneapolis hospital with head trauma and multiple fractures.

Aranda has already been convicted of assaulting the mall twice in 2015, including one in which he dumped a glass of water and a glass of tea on a woman who refused to buy him anything. Aranda at one point was banned from the mall.

The court records show that Aranda had been ordered to undergo a psychological assessment or treatment after the previous assaults in the mall.

The boy's mother told the police that Aranda had approached very close to his group while they were standing in front of the Rainforest Cafe restaurant. She added that she had asked him if they were on his way and they had to move. He then took the child without warning and threw him off the balcony, according to the complaint.

The police surprised Aranda on a light rail at the mall pending his departure. They confessed to throwing the child off the balcony and stated that he had come to the mall a day earlier to seek to kill someone, but that it did not "work" . Aranda had initially announced his intention to kill an adult before choosing the child, the complaint said.

"The defendant indicated that he had been coming to the mall for several years and that he had made efforts to talk to the women at the mall, but that he had been rejected and that rejection had him Rated to be brutal and aggressive, "the complaint said.

Aranda was born in Chicago, where Cook County court documents indicated an arrest for serious assault with a deadly weapon in 2014 at a Golden Nugget restaurant. According to a summary of the case, Aranda beat a restaurant employee with a phone when she threatened to call the police about her note and fired a knife at a passer-by who interfered . He eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 18 months probation.

Aranda is expected to make his first appearance in court Tuesday afternoon and prosecutors will ask for a bail of $ 2 million, reports CBS Minnesota. Prosecutors intend to seek a sentence that takes into account aggravating factors of particular cruelty, including the boy's vulnerability and the act of violence committed in front of his mother and other children, added chain.

The Minnesota child's family has asked for confidentiality.

A GoFundMe page created for the child, named Landen, drew nearly $ 600,000 in donations on Monday.

The creator of the page, Noah Hanneman, announced Sunday that Landen was sleeping "in a peaceful sleep and continues to wage a courageous battle".