Revealed: Texas Mall Shooter’s Journal Was Filled With Asian Hate

The Texas man who fatally gunned down eight people and wounded seven at a Dallas-area mall 10 days ago not only glorified neo-Nazi ideology, he also harbored a deep xenophobia toward Asians, his online journal entries show.

Photos of more than 300 handwritten notes uploaded by mass shooter Mauricio Garcia to Russian social media site OK.ru, where his profile picture was a smiley face with a Hitler mustache, displayed a special sort of vitriol for both East and South Asians, according to a new analysis by the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET), an academic research initiative affiliated with King’s College London.

Four of those killed by Garcia on May 6 at the Allen Premium Outlets were of Asian descent: Kyu Song Cho, 37; Cindy Cho, 35; their 3-year-old son James; and Aishwarya Thatikonda, 26.

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