Mauricio Garcia, 33, was identified as the gunman who killed eight victims in a mass shooting at Allen Premium Outlets on Saturday. The Texas mall gunman allegedly stalked the mall in the weeks before the shooting to identify peak visitation times, according to an extremism researcher who found a Russian social media profile belonging to the shooter. The motive for the attack remains unknown but the gunman was wearing a patch reading “RWDS” – standing for Right Wing Death Squad – as he carried out the rampage. Investigators in Texas are also looking into possible neo-Nazi and white supremacist beliefs of the gunman who killed eight in the mass shooting at a shopping mall in Allen. Mauricio Garcia, 33, was identified as the shooter who drove to the Allen Premium Outlets on Saturday afternoon and opened fire on innocent shoppers with an AR-15-style rifle. Posts allegedly written by Garcia, reviewed by The Independent and extremism researchers, include photos showing SS and swastika tattoos, praise for Adolf Hitler, misogynistic screeds that echo incel ideas and forums, and complaints about the state of his mental health. Eight people, including three members of a family, died in the attack before the gunman was shot dead by a law enforcement officer.
via independet: Allen mall shooting – update: ‘Neo Nazi’ gunman stalked shopping centre to find ‘peak’ visiting time
siehe auch: Posts show mall gunman researched attack, had Nazi tattoos. 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. (…) Garcia’s online activity also betrayed a fascination with white supremacy and mass shootings, which he described as sport. 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. 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; Texas shooter’s ‘RWDS’ patch linked to far-right extremists. The shooter who killed eight people at a Dallas-area mall was wearing a patch that read “RWDS” — short for “Right Wing Death Squad” — a phrase that has been embraced in recent years by far-right extremists who glorify violence against their political enemies. (…) The “RWDS” acronym is one of countless shorthand terms used by extremists. Others include “RaHoWa,” short for “racial holy war,” and “ 1488,” an alphabet-driven code combining references to a white nationalist slogan and Adolf Hitler. The term “Right Wing Death Squad” originally emerged in the 1970s and ’80s to describe Central and South American paramilitary groups created to support right-wing governments and dictatorships and oppose perceived enemies on the left, said Oren Segal, vice president of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. It reemerged in the 2010s among right-wing groups who use it on stickers, patches and in online forums. Other far-right gear and online memes specifically glorify Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the brutal Chilean military dictator whose death squads killed thousands of political opponents. “It essentially became a phrase that was co-opted to demonstrate opposition to the left more broadly by right-wing extremists,” Segal said. Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, said the Proud Boys, the neo-fascist group of self-described “Western chauvinists,” are largely responsible for injecting “RWDS” into the far-right vernacular. The group has sold patches and T-shirts adorned with the acronym and celebrating Pinochet’s death squads. Proud Boys have been photographed wearing “RWDS” patches at rallies and wearing T-shirts that read, “Pinochet did nothing wrong.”; Ermittler gehen Hinweisen auf rechtsextremen Hintergrund nach. Bei dem mutmaßlichen Amokläufer, der in Texas acht Menschen erschoss, handelt es sich laut US-Medien um einen 33 Jahre alten Mann. Sein Motiv ist noch unklar – es gibt aber erste Hinweise. Der mutmaßliche Schütze bei dem Amoklauf in einem Einkaufszentrum im US-Bundesstaat Texas war Medienberichten zufolge ein 33 Jahre alter Mann. Das berichteten die Fernsehsender CNN und Fox News am Sonntag unter Berufung auf Ermittlerkreise. Die „Washington Post“ und das „Wall Street Journal“ meldeten, der Mann habe in einem Hotel in der Umgebung gewohnt und bei der Attacke mehrere Waffen bei sich gehabt. In dem Hotel sei weitere Munition gefunden worden.
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