

The guns were all legally purchased, he told reporters at a news conference. Texas Department of Public Safety Regional Director Hank Sibley said Tuesday the gunman had eight weapons with him: three on his person and five in his vehicle. Shooter had three legally purchased guns on him and five in his car He’d been staying in an extended-stay hotel in Dallas, The Dallas Morning News reported. Garcia had been living in some form of transient lodging, according to the law enforcement source.

“I know nothing happened on our block, but it sends a chill down your spine knowing the suspect lives a few houses away,” neighbor Moises Carreon said. Neighbors of an address matching that of Garcia’s parents were shocked to learn Garcia was the shooter, they told CNN. In addition to an AR-15-style firearm and another weapon found with Garcia, police discovered several more weapons in his car, the law enforcement source told CNN. Garcia wore an RWDS patch – a reference to Right-Wing Death Squad, the source said. How White 'replacement theory' evolved from elderly racists to teens online to the alleged inspiration for another racist mass homicide REUTERS/Brendan McDermid BRENDAN MCDERMID/REUTERS Members of the Buffalo Police department work at the scene of a shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, U.S. Garcia self-identified in some posts as an “ incel,” a term the Anti-Defamation League defines as “heterosexual men who blame women and society for their lack of romantic success.” Some posts were sexist and expressed anger toward women. The Odnoklassniki account, which has the username “PsycoVision 5,” listed no friends or groups, suggesting Garcia may have used it like a personal diary, tweeted Aric Toler, the Bellingcat researcher who identified the account.īut the posts are publicly visible to anyone with an account on the social media site, which is also known as OK.RU. The existence of the account was first reported by the New York Times, and it was later identified by a researcher with the open source intelligence website Bellingcat. There were also photos posted showing a man’s shirtless torso with a large swastika tattoo over the heart. “Even if I did go to a psychologist,” the poster writes, “Their (sic) not going to be able to fix with whatevers wrong with me. Obtained by CNNĢ families lost multiple loved ones in the Texas outlet mall shooting


From left, Aishwarya Thatikonda, Christian LaCour, Cho Kyu Song and Kang Shin Young, are some of the Texas mall shooting victims.
