A man killed 8 people in a supermarket in Texas: police suspect he is a neo-Nazi

The alleged shooter on May 6 killed at least eight people, including children, and injured seven others near a mall in Allen, Texas. He could have been a white supremacist or a neo-Nazi, reports Washington Post.

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The suspected shooter, 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia, was fatally shot by a police officer who was at an Allen Premium Outlets store in suburban Dallas on another call.

Local resident Garcia has been registered to vote in Texas since 2008, according to documents. According to his parents' neighbors, he often wore a security guard's uniform when leaving and returning home.

Who is the shooter and where did he live

Garcia was staying at a hotel in the Dallas area at the time of the shooting, according to people familiar with the investigation.

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According to his parents' neighbors, the shooter until recently lived with his parents in East Dallas, east of White Rock Lake. They said that law enforcement, including the FBI, broke into the parents' home on May 6 in the evening, blocking part of the street and staying there until the early hours of May 7.

Several of the suspect's neighbors described the shooter as someone who kept to himself and didn't seem to get in trouble. “He just seemed aloof, aloof. But he didn't threaten anyone," said Kevin Todd, who lives down the street.

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 — the uniform of a security guard or law enforcement officer.

According to his profile on the Texas Online Private Security database, the shooter was allowed to work as a security guard in Texas from April 2016 until April 2020, when his license expired. ABC. As part of his job, Garcia has completed Level II and Level III security training. The first deals with safety laws in Texas, and the second, which is required for all security and close protection officers in Texas, includes training in the use of firearms and demonstration of firearms proficiency. Garcia completed a separate firearms training course in 2018, which requires six hours of continuous training, according to the database.

Neighbors also saw him drive in and out in a sports car.

Julie, the suspect's neighbor, had a different description of him. "We called him 'Honky' because he always honked and waved at us," Julie said.

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She said he was one of four children of a couple who had lived in the neighborhood for over ten years. “They are good people,” Julie said. She and other neighbors said he must have moved out of his parents' house one or two months ago. Julie said she had only seen him once since then.

How many guns did the shooter bring to the mall?

Garcia had multiple weapons on him and in his car, people familiar with the investigation said.

President Biden said on May 7 that the attacker used an AR-15 type weapon and was wearing tactical gear. In addition to the weapons found on him, investigators found five other weapons in his car nearby.

The shooter was mortally wounded outside a burger restaurant, wearing black tactical gear with several ammo magazines across his chest. Beside him lay what looked like an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. Sunglasses with missing lenses lay next to the body.

During the attack, he wore a patch on his clothing with the letters RWDS, which stands for "Right Wing Death Squad". The phrase is popular among right-wing extremists and white supremacists. Yahoo. One avenue of investigation is to understand whether the perpetrator pursued these ideals and whether he had connections with like-minded people.

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Colin Palakiko, a 36-year-old chef, was at the mall with his mother when the shooting started. After hiding in a shoe store for 45 minutes, Palakiko was taken outside by the police. It was then that he saw what he thought was the body of the shooter - a man wearing a tactical vest with room for magazines with high-capacity ammunition.

Palakico said he couldn't believe how much ammunition the shooter had. “This guy was fired up,” he said. “No civilian should have access to this type of ammunition.” This is madness".

Steven Spainhauer described how he rushed to the scene after he received a call from his son reporting the shooting. He spoke of an "incomprehensible massacre."

He said at least three victims could not be saved even after he administered CPR. “The first girl I approached sat down, covering her head,” he recalled. “So I felt for a pulse, pulled her head to the side, and she had no face.”

He helped the boy who was under the dead body of his mother.

“When I turned the mother over, the boy was under her. I asked him if he was okay and he said, “My mom is hurt, my mom is hurt.” So, instead of further injuring him, I took him around the corner and sat him down,” Stephen said.

According to Spanhower, the boy was "covered from head to toe in blood."

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