In the last few days, the country has learned a lot about Mauricio Garcia, the man who police say opened fire at a busy shopping mall in Allen, Texas, on Saturday, killing eight people and wounding 10 more.
Garcia, experts say, left behind a trove of social media posts that delve deep into his psyche. Ramblings, pontifications and pains are laid out in hundreds of handwritten pages that were photographed and placed on the Russian social media site Odnoklassniki (“classmates”) or Ok.Ru, by an account that apparently belonged to him. These pages appear to form a kind of diary.
Based on the posts attributed to him, a picture has become clear: Garcia had a deep and passionate interest in facets of far-right extremism, especially misogyny, white supremacy and anti-Semitism. Perhaps most starkly, Garcia posted photographs of his neo-Nazi tattoos — a large swastika on his chest, and the letters “SS” on his right arm. Law enforcement officials have since confirmed the shooter had tattoos and patches expressing a “neo-Nazi ideation.”
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May 2023