Originally published May 11, 2023 6:00 pm PDT
Despite mainstream media claims that shooter Mauricio Garcia is a “white supremacist,” Garcia said white people are “a race I don’t like.”
QUICK FACTS:
- A discovered note from Texas mass shooter Mauricio Garcia calls into question the mainstream media narrative that Garcia was a “white supremacist.”
- Rather than overtly representing a white supremacist manifesto, the letter appears to be all over the place.
- “I have to tip my hat off to William Travis, James Bowie, and David Crockett,” Garcia wrote in the letter found on a platform called OK.RU. “They were definitely worthy adversaries. That’s why white America might beat Mexico in the 2nd Mexican American war.”
- “IF Mexico takes over the United States I really don’t want to share the spoils w/ these other loser races,” Garcia continued. “I don’t even want to share the spoils w/ other Latinos, like the Cubans & Puerto Ricans, Latinos stand up my [expletive].”
- “I’m a child of the corn that likes to munch on bean’s & tortillas,” Garcia added in the disjointed letter. “I remember hearing some loser white hating Mexican guy telling Hispanic men to get w/ a white girl so they don’t have white babies. Stupid [expletive]. That’s the dumbest [expletive] I’ve ever heard. I’m not taking one for the team & getting w/ a [expletive] from a race I don’t like. What’s going to happen when you have dozens hundreds or thousands of Nick Fuentes running around? Then what the [expletive] are you doing to do?”
SHOOTER LIKELY MENTALLY ILL:
- An anonymous U.S. Army official told the Associated Press that Garcia was terminated from his position due to mental health problems.
- He was given an “uncharacterized” discharge, a move not considered dishonorable.
- Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Regional Director Hank Sibley noted that although Garcia had a “neo-Nazi ideation,” it is likely not a motive for the shooting.
- “To me, it looks like he targeted the location rather than a specific group of people,” according to Sibley.
- “He was very random in the people he killed — it didn’t matter the age, same race or sex. He just shot people, which is horrific in itself,” Sibley added.
BACKGROUND:
- Eight people were killed at a mall shooting in Allen, Texas.
- Mauricio Garcia was fatally shot by a law enforcement officer at the site.
