Posts reveal Texas retail shooter planned his assault and got Nazi tattoos

The suspect in a deadly assault at a suburban Dallas shopping center who has been charged with killing 8 people and injuring several more planned his assault at peak hours and shared images of a business nearby on social media in mid-April.

According to Mauricio Garcia’s statements on a Russian networking site, the shooter, who has been recognized by officials, had been plotting the assault for weeks when he began firing on the crowd on Saturday.

In addition, Garcia’s behavior on the website revealed a passion for white nationalism and mass killings, which he referred to as a sport. Large Nazi tattoos, such as a swastika and the SS lightning bolt symbol of Hitler’s paramilitary forces, could be seen on his arm and chest in pictures he shared.

In other writings, he claimed to have researched to determine what time of day the mall among the most ethnically varied neighborhoods of the Dallas area was going to be busiest: Saturday afternoons, which is when he finally decided to conduct the massacre.

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