The alleged shooter who killed at least eight people and wounded at least seven more, outside an shopping mall in Allen, Texas, may have had white supremacist or neo-Nazi beliefs, people familiar with the investigation said Sunday.
The suspected gunman, 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia, was fatally shot by a police officer who was at Allen Premium Outlets in the Dallas suburb on an unrelated call, authorities said, hours after the shooting.
Garcia, a local resident, has been registered to vote in Texas since 2008, records show. He and often wore a security guard uniform while leaving and returning home, according to his parents’ neighbors.
Here is what we know about him so far.
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Who is the shooter and where did he live?
At the time of the shooting, Garcia was living in a Dallas-area hotel, according to the people familiar with the investigation.
The gunman used to live with his parents in East Dallas, east of White Rock Lake, until a few months ago, according to his parents’ neighbors. They said law enforcement, including the FBI, swarmed the parents’ home Saturday evening, closing down part of the street and staying until the early morning hours of Sunday.
Several of the suspect’s neighbors described the shooter as someone who kept to himself and didn’t seem to get into trouble. “He just seemed to be aloof, kind of disconnected. But he wasn’t threatening,” said Kevin Todd, who lives down the street.
The neighbors on the well-kept, tree-lined street where the suspect lived with his parents said they never knew the man’s name, but recognized him from the clothes he often wore, described as being a uniform for a security guard or law enforcement officer.
They also saw him coming and going in a sporty car.
A next-door neighbor, who would only give her first name, Julie, had a different description of the suspect. “We called him ‘Honky’ because he always honked at us and waved,” Julie said.
She said he was one of four children of a couple who had lived in the neighborhood for more than a decade. “They’re good people,” Julie said. She and other neighbors said he appeared to have moved out of his parents house one or two months ago, with Julie saying she’d only seen him once since then.
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How many weapons did the gunman bring to the mall?
Garcia had multiple weapons on him and in his nearby car, said people familiar with the investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing probe.
The assailant used an AR-15-style weapon and was wearing tactical gear, President Biden said Sunday. In addition to the weapons found on his body, investigators found another five guns inside his car nearby, said the people familiar with the investigation.
A video that could not immediately be verified by The Washington Post showed what appeared to be the gunman after he was fatally shot outside a burger restaurant, wearing black tactical gear with several magazines of ammunition on his chest. What appears to be an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle lies beside him. A pair of sunglasses with a lens missing is lying next to the body.
Colin Palakiko, a 36-year-old cook, was at the mall to do some shopping with his mother when the shooting began. After taking shelter in a shoe store for 45 minutes, Palakiko was led out by the police. That is when he came upon what he thought was the body of the shooter – a person wearing a tactical vest with space for large capacity ammunition magazines.
Palakiko said he couldn’t believe how much ammunition the shooter had carried. “This guy was loaded,” he said. “No civilian person should be able to have access to that kind of ammunition. It’s insane.”
The Washington Post has not been able to confirm when and where the shooter bought his guns.
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Did the shooter hold white supremacist or neo-Nazi beliefs?
Police have not commented on any possible motive for the shooting, but a patch on the gunman’s chest at the time of the shooting, said “RWDS,” an acronym that stands for Right Wing Death Squad, according to people familiar with the investigation.
The phrase is popular among right-wing extremists, neo-Nazis and white supremacists, they said.
An initial examination of the shooter’s background showed no criminal history, investigators said.
On social media, many are commenting that a tattoo on the shooter’s right hand may be of significance to the investigation. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram noted that the tattoo looks to be the symbol of the City of Dallas. The Post has not verified the tattoo or its significance.
Since the gunman is dead, a major focus of investigators is whether anyone knew what he planned to do or helped him do it.
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1) Mauricio Garcia is a Hispanic name. I highly doubt that he was a White Supremacist.
2) If you search his pictures online a) you will see that he has been booked before, b) he clearly looks Hispanic in his booking picture.
3) Leftist leaning News sites are not reliable. It’s quite possible that the paper is referring to him as a “possible” White Supremacist in order to arouse people to bad anti-gun. It surely would look really bad for them if he turned out to be a staunch Leftist. Time will tell.
4) One thing that I find very interesting is that almost every mass shooter seems to be a quite loner. Something to consider.
or white supremacy may not be confined to white people, besides for there being many types of supremacy, think Japanese, Black, and dare I say Jewish? There can even be those who aren’t of the group who is supreme, but are desperate to get in…
As an aside…
I for one dont believe “Supremacy” in and of itself, is bad. Its what it connotates that defines whether it is good or bad.
Does your “supremacy” demand of you to strive for perfection, kindness, and tolerance? That you not give in to the vainness and vulgarities that can be found among those people who feel that they are good without wor? That is good supremacy. Because its not about putting others down, rather building oneself up!
But if Supremacy is about strength, smarts, or looks, and is defined not by action but by existence, THAT supremacy is quite terrible.
I would believe it’s mk ultra mind control before I believe he was a white supremacist. I would put it past them trying to take away guns and change laws the hard way. There was a shooter in Ft. Lauderdale who went to the FBI and told them he had thoughts of killing a lot of people and to please take his gun away and protect him from others. He even left his child in the car for fear or hurting him. The news reporter went on about him leaving his child in the car instead of focusing on why the FBI made him leave and gave him back the gun, to then later on kill people at the airport. He told them he was under some mind control & he was in the army. I think they randomly pick people who are a off mentally and use them.
“A false flag is an action carried out by a person or group, like a government or cabal, that is blamed on someone else to achieve a subversive goal. False flags pose as imminent threats to the security of a populace, when in fact they’re usually committed by that group’s own government. “
Is that why the keystone cops in Uvalde allowed the little children to be slaughtered like worthless sheep?
What is the race of the killer?
When do you think the last time was that he saw a physician? Then when did he buy the guns?
Unhealthy broom.
Instead of investigating the real reason for these shootings the system is out to twist everything to fit their agenda (narrative). To this day they have yet to release the manifesto of that trans Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale.