Texas Mall Shooter Was Armed with a Handgun and a Rifle

MacKenzie Bates (L), 17, of Allen, Texas, embraces her mother Rochelle where flowers were
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AWR Hawkins

NBC News reports that “senior law enforcement officials” indicate the suspect who opened fire at an Allen, Texas, outlet mall was armed with a handgun and a rifle.

They identified the suspect as 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia.

ABC 30 noted that “numerous other weapons” were found in Garcia’s car.

Breitbart News reported that Garcia lived in a house in northeast Dallas with his parents, and the Dallas Morning News observed he was staying at a Budget Suites hotel at 8150 N Stemmons Freeway leading up to the attack.

Fox News observed that when the FBI descended on the home Garcia shared with his parent, the parents “requested a translator.”

Breitbart News reported that eight people were killed and numerous others injured when the suspect opened fire at the outlet mall around 3:30 p.m. Saturday.

The attack was stopped by a police officer who was at the mall on an unrelated call. The officer shot and killed Garcia.

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AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. AWR Hawkins holds a PhD in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.

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