Texas mall shooter had memory card, handwritten note attached, handcuffs, and hat with ‘security’ on it inside motel room he stayed

The Texas gunman who killed eight people and wounded seven others when he opened fire at a shopping center over the weekend had a memory card with an attached handwritten note and three boxes of ammunition inside his motel room. Mauricio Garcia, 33, was staying at the Budget Suites of America on North Stemmons Freeway in Dallas before storming into the Allen Mall on Saturday afternoon. Texas mall shooter had memory card, handwritten note attached, handcuffs, and hat with ‘security’ on it inside motel room he stayed

There, a newly unsealed warrant says, investigators found a trove of evidence linking Garcia to the fatal shooting, including three boxes of ammunition, a tactical vest, a sheathed knife, nine bullets in a “critical defense box,” handcuffs, a rifle handguard and an extra holster.

They also found two black hats, one of which was emblazoned with the phrase ‘Killin It’ and the other with ‘Security’, several micro CD cards, a micro SD adapter with a handwritten note, and receipts from the gun company fire Carolina Caliber. , as well as one for GT Distributors tactical gear and various other notes.

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Texas mall shooter had memory card, handwritten note attached, handcuffs, and hat with

It is not clear what the handwritten notes said. bAn Army spokesman has since confirmed that Garcia had been a member of the United States Army in 2008, but was discharged due to mental health issues.

“Mauricio Garcia entered the regular Army in June 2008,” Army Public Affairs spokeswoman Heather J. Hagan said in a statement to WFAA. “He was fired three months later without completing initial entry training,” she said. He was not awarded an occupational military specialty. He had no deployment or awards.

An anonymous army official also told the news station that Garcia was “separated pursuant to the 2005 edition of Army Regulation 635-200, paragraphs 5-17, “Other Designated Physical or Medical Conditions.” “This is a common discharge for recruits who can’t adjust to military life,” explained attorney Bradford J Glendening, a former member of the US Army Corps of Attorneys General (JAG).

“Soldiers who are discharged without completing Initial Entry Training receive uncharacterized casualties,” which are “just what they sound like,” he said. “They are neither favorable nor unfavorable,” Glendening said. “No benefits are obtained or lost with an uncharacterized dismissal.” Garcia then went on to work security jobs, reports WFAA, and recently moved out of his parents’ home.

An FBI bulletin sent to local law enforcement agencies said that “an initial review and classification of the subject’s social media accounts revealed hundreds of posts and images that included racially and ethnically motivated violent extremist rhetoric, including material neo-Nazi and white supremacist materials.’

One such social media account, reviewed by DailyMail.com, was littered with photos of Nazis, weapons and ammunition, as well as extremist rants about Jews, women and racial minorities.

And in the weeks before he committed the senseless mass shooting at Allen Premium Outlets, more than two dozen photos of the mall and its surroundings were uploaded to an account on the OK.RU platform, including screenshots from the tracking spike. of Google location information. visiting times.

Both Toler and NBC said the account, on the Russian site OK.RU, belonged to Garcia, who was shot and killed at the scene.
Posts on Garcia’s social media accounts show a series of shirtless images with white power tattoos on his body, including SS Lightning Bolts and a swastika.

Posts on Garcia’s social media accounts show a series of shirtless images with white power tattoos on his body, including SS Lightning Bolts and a swastika. The account was riddled with Nazi posts. All these photos were uploaded with the caption: ‘My kind of people’ The account was riddled with Nazi posts. All these photos were uploaded with the caption: ‘My kind of people’
The posts also included location information from Google which monitors rush hours downtown.Read More…….