(CNN) A 5-year-old child suffered life-threatening injuries when, according to witnesses, a man either threw or pushed the child from the third floor of the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, police said Friday.

Police Chief Jeff Potts quoted witnesses as saying the person suspected of pushing or throwing the child "took off running immediately after the incident." A suspect was soon found inside the mall's transit station and was taken into custody.

Bloomington police said later Friday that Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda, 24, was charged with attempted homicide in connection with the incident. Aranda lives in the Bloomington area, police said. He had two previous trespass notices ordering him to stay away from the Mall of America, according to the Star Tribune newspaper in Minneapolis.

Bloomington police released this photo of Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda, charged with attempted homicide in an incident in which a child was pushed or thrown from the third floor of the Mall of America.

Potts told reporters that police were called to the mall at 10:17 a.m. local time, and initial information suggested a child had fallen from the third level of the mall's interior to the first level.

Additional information from witnesses indicated the 5-year-old might have been pushed or thrown, Potts said.

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