Investigators say they have yet to establish a motive and that the gunman had no criminal record. Here's what to know about the shooting at the Allen Premium Outlets.
The gunman stepped out of a silver sedan on Saturday afternoon and started shooting people, cars and glass storefronts in a rain of bullets from an AR-15 style rifle — one of eight legally purchased firearms authorities said he brought to the mall.
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. Fontayne Payton, 35, who was at H&M when he heard gunshots, recalled seeing small corpses covered in white towels and praying that they weren't children. “It broke me when I walked out to see that,” he said.Sofia Mendoza, a second-grader at Cox Elementary School, and her big sister, fourth-grader Daniela Mendoza, were among them. Principal Krista Wilson called them “the kindest, most thoughtful students” in a letter to parents. Their aunt, Anabel Del Angel, said their mother was wounded.
LaCour, the 20-year-old security guard, was known to stop by the mall's Tommy Hilfiger clothing store. “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.Police said the gunman was Mauricio Garcia, who had lived in Dallas. describing his white supremacist and misogynistic views. 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.
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