What we know about Mauricio Garcia, the Texas mall shooting suspect

The alleged shooter who killed at least eight people and wounded at least seven more, outside an shopping mall in Allen, Texas, may have had white supremacist or neo-Nazi beliefs, people familiar with the investigation said Sunday.

The suspected gunman, 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia, was fatally shot by a police officer who was at Allen Premium Outlets in the Dallas suburb on an unrelated call, authorities said Saturday evening, hours after the shooting.

Here’s what else we know about the shooter:

He lived with his parents in Dallas prior to moving to a hotel in the days before the shooting.

He was armed with an “AR-15 style assault weapon,” President Joe Biden said.

He also had a handgun, a senior law enforcement official said.

More weapons and ammunition were found in his car.

According to the Wall Street Journal, investigators recovered more firearms from the hotel room where Garcia had been living prior to the shooting.

He is believed to have acted alone, police said.

Garcia had served in the U.S. Army in 2009 but was discharged over “mental health concerns,” according to WFAA. 

Garcia worked as a private security guard from 2016 to 2020 and completed his firearm proficiency training in 2018, according to the Daily Beast. The website cited Texas Department of Public Safety data.

His victims were between the ages of 5 and 61. Six of the injured victims are still in hospital, three of whom are in critical condition, NBC News