Garcia was always friendly, waving and honking, she said.Ī law enforcement official said investigators also have searched a Dallas motel where Garcia had been staying ahead of the attack.Īmid protests Monday at the Texas Capitol for stricter gun control, two Republicans sided with Democrats to advance a bill that would raise the age to buy semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21, though the measure has little or no chance of actually becoming law. The company that manages the mall where the attack happened didn’t immediately reply to messages seeking further information.Ī woman who lives next door said she didn’t know her neighbors well but described them as nice and polite. On the Dallas block where Garcia lived at a family home until recently, neighbors said they thought he worked as a security guard but they weren’t sure where. Other posts indicated Garcia had researched when the Allen Premium Outlets in Allen, one of the Dallas-area’s most diverse suburbs, would be the busiest - Saturday afternoons, the time he carried out the massacre, which ended when police shot and killed him.
Photos he posted showed large Nazi tattoos on his arm and torso, including a swastika and the SS lightning bolt logo of Hitler’s paramilitary forces. Garcia’s online activity also betrayed a fascination with white supremacy and mass shootings, which he described as sport. Among the dead were two elementary school-age sisters, a couple and their 3-year-old son, and a security guard.
The posts by Mauricio Garcia on a Russian social networking site suggest the 33-year-old had been planning the attack for weeks before he stepped out of a silver sedan and opened fire Saturday. DALLAS (AP) - The man accused of killing eight people and wounding several others in a mass shooting at a suburban Dallas shopping mall researched when it was busiest and posted photos on social media in mid-April of a store near where he ultimately started his attack.
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