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Investigator: Texas shooter had “neo-Nazi attitude”
Police officers are patrolling the Allen, Texas, mall where a gunman killed several people. photo
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A 33-year-old man shot dead eight people with an AR-15 assault rifle in Allen, Texas. Now the investigators are making a first statement about the ideological background of the shooter.
Three days after the bloody crime in a shopping center in the US state of Texas with eight dead, the investigators commented on the alleged shooter. “We know he had neo-Nazi sentiments,” Texas Public Safety Administration’s Hank Sibley said at a news conference yesterday.
Corresponding tattoos and patches as well as the special signature of the 33-year-old indicated this. However, his motive remains unclear. It looks as if he shot “randomly” and that the age, gender and origin of the victims played no role in his act.
Several children among the victims
The suspected gunman killed eight people in the gun attack at a busy shopping center in the city of Allen near Dallas on Saturday before he was shot dead by a police officer. Several people were injured. Several children are among the victims.
Sibley said the shooter had eight guns with him: three were on his body and five others were found in the car. He bought all of them legally. According to US President Joe Biden, the shooter used an AR-15 assault rifle in the attack. This weapon is used particularly frequently in such crimes in the USA.
According to the non-governmental organization Gun Violence Archive, almost 6,400 people have died from gun violence in the United States since the beginning of this year alone – not counting suicides.