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☆ Texas gunman may have embraced white supremacy, media reports say
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

May 8 (Reuters) - The man accused of shooting and killing eight people at a Texas mall appeared to have embraced white supremacist and neo-Nazi ideologies, multiple media outlets reported on Monday. In social media profiles thought to be linked to the suspect, 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia, investigators found posts targeting racial or ethnic minorities, NBC News reported, citing two law enforcement officials. On a Russian social media platform, a user believed to have been Garcia praised the dictator Adolf Hitler and sympathized with neo-Nazi beliefs, according to the New York Times, citing law enforcement sources. The Allen Police Department, Collin County Sheriff's Office and the Texas Department of Public Safety did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the reports. Reporting by Tyler Clifford in New York; Editing by Lisa ShumakerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Inside the sprawling complex in suburban Allen, employees, shoppers and families with young children bolted to take cover in storage areas or back hallways, witnesses told CNN. The gunman was killed by an Allen Police Department officer who was at the mall on an unrelated call, police said. One witness, Kingsley Ezeh, told CNN he was walking inside the mall when people behind him suddenly began running. Emergency vehicles line the entrance to the Allen Premium Outlets where a shooting took place on May 6, 2023 in Allen, Texas. The shooting was deeply disturbing, said Fatburger employee Tiffany Gipson, who told CNN she and other customers hid in a hallway behind their mall restaurant.

☆ Texas mall shooting prompts Biden to renew call for gun control
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Maria Caspani | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

REUTERS/Reuters TVMay 7 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday called on Congress to pass gun control bills in the wake of yet another mass shooting that left nine people dead, including the gunman, at a Texas mall on Saturday. The gunman killed eight people, including children, and wounded at least seven, before a police officer killed him, police said on Saturday. Some Twitter users said people and politicians needed to see videos like this one to grasp the magnitude and horrific nature of gun violence. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other Democrats stressed the need to pass stronger gun safety legislation to curtail gun violence. One unidentified eyewitness told local ABC affiliate WFAA TV that the gunman was "walking down the sidewalk just ... shooting his gun outside."

☆ Nine People Killed in Texas After a Shooter Opens Fire at Suburban Mall
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Ginger Adams Otis | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Texas authorities are investigating a shooting reported Saturday afternoon at an outdoor mall in Allen, Texas. Nine people were killed and seven others were injured in Texas after a shooter opened fire Saturday in a mall outside of Dallas, law-enforcement officials said. The gunfire began around 3:30 p.m. local time at the Allen Premium Outlets in Allen, Texas. A police officer who was in the area on an unrelated call heard the gunshots at the mall and engaged the suspect, the Allen Police Department said.

ET]Police are searching for a second gunman in the shooting at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, a law enforcement source tells CNN. There is a search for a “second gunman,” according to the law enforcement source, based on descriptions from witnesses, although the involvement of a second shooter is not confirmed. [Previous reporting]Authorities in a suburb of Dallas are responding to a reported shooting at an outlet mall, with ATF personnel on the scene at Allen Premium Outlets. Tony Wright, an Allen resident whose home backs up to the Allen Premium Outlets, said his family thought they heard construction before they realized it was gunshots. But he said once they saw people fleeing the outlet mall, the family locked the doors and hunkered down.

☆ Police responding to shooting at Texas mall, multiple people injured
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] Police respond to a shooting in the Dallas area's Allen Premium Outlets, which authorities said has left multiple people injured in Allen, Texas, U.S. May 6, 2023 in a still image from video. ABC Affiliate WFAA via REUTERSMay 6 (Reuters) - Police were responding to a shooting at a busy suburban Dallas mall on Saturday that left multiple people injured, authorities said. There was no word on deaths or the number of people injured at the Allen Premium Outlets mall where the shooting took place, about 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Dallas. "Law enforcement is on the scene at Allen Premium Outlets. Allen, Texas, is a community of about 100,000 people.

Gunfire erupted at a mall north of Dallas on Saturday, sending shoppers running from stores and the police to investigate reports that people had been wounded. Jessica Pond of the Collin County Sheriff’s Office said that “there’s some possibly wounded” in the shooting at the Allen Premium Outlets in Allen, Texas, but could not provide further details. The Allen Police Department said on Twitter that law enforcement was at the mall and that an “active investigation is underway.”A video circulating on social media showed people running through a parking lot in front of a shopping center with loud popping sounds in the background.

☆ El Paso Shooting Suspect Indicted on Capital Murder Charge
▼ + stars: | 2019-09-12 | by ( Heather Murphy | More About Heather Murphy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Nineteen minutes before the first 911 call alerted the authorities to a mass shooting, a hate-filled, anti-immigrant manife sto appeared online. The suspect told investigators soon after his arrest that after driving more than 10 hours from Allen to El Paso, he had become lost, and then drove to Walmart because he was hungry, according to court documents. He also told investigators that he had used an AK-47-style rifle and brought multiple magazines with him from Allen to carry out the killings. The police told her that, according to the law, her son was allowed to have the weapon , a lawyer for his family has said. A lawyer for Mr. Crusius could not be immediately reached for comment on Thursday.

Persons: manife sto, Allen, Crusius, Mark Stevens Organizations: Walmart, Allen Police Department Locations: Texas, El Paso, United States

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