Texas officials say mall gunman had "neo-Nazi ideation"
During a press conference on Tuesday, a representative from the Texas Department of Public Safety said the motive behind the shooting at a mall in Allen on Saturday in which eight people died was still being investigated but that the gunman, identified as Mauricio Garcia, who was killed by police, had "neo-Nazi ideation."
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- The big question that we're dealing with right now is, what's his motive? Why did he do this? Well, the big question is, we don't know. That's what the investigation is trying to find out.
We do know that he had neo-Nazi ideation. He had patches. He had tattoos. Even his signature verified that. That's one thing we do know. We are trying to get into his computer and on social media and find out, you know, whether he had any-- anything that he'd publicized or been out.
We're looking around, and we're seeing what he-- trying to find what he looked at and trying to get whatever the information we can. This is the ongoing part of the investigation. And we have a situation that, once we figure that out, hopefully we figure that out and get definitive about it, we can go public with that down the road.
