Why Did The Texas Mall Shooting Occur?
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A mass shooting occurred on May 6, 2023, at Allen Premium Outlets in Allen, Texas, with nine people (including the perpetrator) were being killed. Details of the incident are listed below, taken from an excerpt in wikipedia, in italics, below:
The shooting began on May 6, 2023, at 3:36 p.m. CDT. Wearing black tactical gear,[10] the shooter exited a silver Dodge Charger and shot into a crowd outside the mall.[11][12][13] The gunman shot 15 people within three or four minutes.[14] Witnesses said the shooter appeared to be firing indiscriminately[15] and fired dozens of shots.[16] A store employee recounted that those running from the shooter, alerted others of the shooting and helped shelter customers and employees in the backrooms of the store.[17] Several of the victims were shot outside the H&M store.[18] A military veteran attempted to give CPR to at least three of the victims, and recounted that many victims were placed in an ambulance and rushed to a hospital as they were unable to triage the victims at the site due to the severity of the injuries.[19]
The Allen Police Department said that calls from the mall came in at 3:40 p.m.,[11] and tweeted at 4:22 p.m. that law enforcement was at the Allen Premium Outlets.[9] Allen police chief Brian Harvey said that an officer who was at the mall on an unrelated call, after hearing gunshots, engaged and killed the shooter.[4][15][10]
Three guns were found on the gunman’s body; five more were recovered from his car. He had purchased all eight guns legally.[20]
On May 6, 2023, a mass shooting occurred at Allen Premium Outlets, an outlet center in Allen, Texas, United States. Nine people, including the perpetrator, were killed during the massacre, the youngest of whom was a three-year-old boy.[3] The perpetrator was shot by a police officer already in the area on an unrelated call.[4] At least seven were injured.[3]
The shooter, 33 year old Mauricio Martinez Garcia, wore a black tactical vest embroidered with a patch reading “RWDS” (“Right Wing Death Squad”). His body was tattooed with fascist symbols including SS lightning bolts and a large swastika.[5] Garcia posted hateful comments against women, Jews and racial minorities in the lead-up to the massacre.[6][7][5]
The shooting occurred eight days after five people had been killed in a mass shooting in Cleveland, Texas, leading to increased scrutiny of gun laws in Texas.
The New Republic’s Michael Tomasky joins Morning Joe to discuss his latest article on why he says manufacturers won’t hit pause on gun production despite the recent proliferation of mass shootings, in the video published on May 8, 2023, by MSNBC, as “Why the gun industry wants malls and schools to be war zones“, below:
CNN Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst John Miller breaks down the ideology of the gunman who killed eight people and injured at least seven others at an Allen, Texas outlet mall. CNN’s Josh Campbell also reports on what we know so far about seven of the eight victims, in the video published on May 8, 2023, by CNN, as “Expert on Texas shooter’s ‘hate ideology’ on social media“, below:
Rachel Maddow, joined by Kathleen Belew, an expert on the white power movement in the United States, looks at the interconnectedness of radical, right-wing mass killings and Republican politics under Donald Trump that has embraced some of the same ideology, in the video published on May 9, 2023, by MSNBC, as “Radical right wing mass violence sits dangerously close to Republican politics“, below:
A suburb north of Dallas is reeling after a gunman opened fire at a busy mall on Saturday, killing 8. Ben Collins, Matthew Watkins and Texas State Senator Roland Gutierrez join to discuss the latest mass shooting in America, in the video published on May 9, 2023, by May 9, 2023, as “Gunman in Texas mall shooting ‘deeply ingrained into white supremacist culture’“, below:
Rachel Maddow, joined by Kathleen Belew, an expert on the white power movement in the United States, looks at the interconnectedness of radical, right-wing mass killings and Republican politics under Donald Trump that has embraced some of the same ideology, in the video published on May 9, 2023, by MSNBC, as “Radical right wing mass violence sits dangerously close to Republican politics“, below:
Following a mass shooting Saturday night at Allen Premium Outlets, northeast of Dallas, Texas that killed eight, a new Dallas Morning News editorial is urging the state’s Gov. Greg Abbott to act on gun violence. The Morning Joe panel discusses the shooting and Abbott’s recent remarks on how Texas is bolstering mental health funding, in the video published on May 8, 2023, by MSNBC, as “Joe: There is a sickness in Texas and that sickness starts at the top with Greg Abbott“, below:
NBC News’ Kate Snow speaks with experts about why 2023 is on pace to be one of the worst years ever for mass shootings in America, in the video published on May 7, 2023, by NBC News, as “Why are there so many mass shootings this year?” below:
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