“I think I’ll take my chances with the white supremacist,” he wrote. He was Latino, and posted one cartoon image showing a Latino child at a fork in a road, with one direction labeled “act black” and the other, “become a white supremacist.” He described mass shootings as sport, and posted photos showing his large Nazi tattoos and a favorite passage in the Hunger Games books marked with a swastika drawn in green highlighter. Garcia, 33, left a long trail of online posts describing his white supremacist and misogynistic views. Police said the gunman was Mauricio Garcia, who had lived in Dallas. “To, me it looks like he targeted the location, rather than a specific group of people,” Sibley said Tuesday. Hank Sibley, regional director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said for now, it did not appear the gunman targeted people based on their race, age or sex. “in search of the American dream,” ABC News reported. His brother, Gregory Smith Cumana, said that Cumana-Rivas, who was from Venezuela, had moved to the U.S. “She came to the United States with a dream to make a career, build a family, own a home and live forever in Dallas,” company founder Srinivas Chaluvadi said in an email.Įlio Cumana-Rivas, 32, was also killed, authorities said. She held a graduate degree in construction management and worked as a civil engineer at the Dallas-area firm Perfect General Contractors. “He was very young, very sweet, came in all the time to visit with us,” said the store’s assistant manager, Andria Gaither, who fled the gunshots Saturday.Īishwarya Thatikonda, 26, was from India, the daughter of a judge in Hyderabad. LaCour, the 20-year-old security guard, was known to stop by the mall’s Tommy Hilfiger clothing store. Outside the locked rooms, security guard Christian LaCour had just helped someone get to safety and was trying to evacuate others when he was fatally shot, Allen Police Chief Brian Harvey said at a news conference Tuesday.Īn Allen police officer who happened to be nearby saved “countless lives” by killing the gunman within four minutes of the attack’s start, authorities said. “My co-worker picked up a 4-year-old girl and gave her to her parents.” Kids were getting trampled,” said Maxwell Gum, a 16-year-old pretzel stand employee. Witnesses recalled hearing dozens of shots as shoppers stampeded for shelter and store workers pulled people into backrooms and rolled down metal gates for protection. – Stalled gun bill advances in Texas after new mass shootings.– Texas mall victims include several members from two families.– Officer who killed mall attack shooter hailed as a hero.
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