The 33-year-old was wearing a “Right Wing Death Squad” badge and had a tattoo of a swastika, according to police. He had been inculcated in white supremacist and other hate-based movements. In an online post, Garcia said he was “ashamed” to be Hispanic.
, a political commentator on YouTube who has a history of touting white nationalist ideas, is half-Mexican.
The county’s increasing diversity “adds some challenges and it also adds a lot of character to the community,” said Abraham George, who is chairman of the Collin County Republican Party and Indian American.“Even if is sympathetic to a white supremacist group — I’m like, this guy isn’t even White,” George said. “It should matter about the crime itself, it shouldn’t matter the color of the person’s skin.
The gunman also frequented the Mexican-owned Jorge’s Barber Shop, near his family’s home in East Dallas. He was known as “the weird dude,” said barbershop owner Jorge Nila in an interview with The Washington Post. He was quiet except when he was leaving after his haircut, he said, and would say loudly “Viva la raza!”“It was like, okay, you don’t have to say that, we’re all Mexican, we’re all cool, you don’t need to be like, confirming it with us,” Nila said.
Castro immigrated to the United States from El Salvador in 1989 and lives in Sachse, which is partly in Collin County.
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