A Texas gunman who killed eight people at a shopping mall before being killed by police identified as a Latino and espoused white supremacist ideology, vowing to "fight hate with more hate".
Mauricio Garcia, 33, injured at least seven others when he opened fire with an assault rifle at a busy shopping centre in Allen, a suburb north of Dallas.
An online diary on the Russian social media site OK.RU officials linked to the shooter includes photographs of large Nazi tattoos and cryptic warnings of his coming attack.
Garcia appears to have obtained the tattoos last month - a large swastika on his chest and the logo of the Nazi Party's Waffen SS paramilitary body.
He expressed hate for women, Jews, and "diversity", while rarely commenting on his own Hispanic ethnicity.
He posted pictures of his guns, body armour, and patches of skulls and the initials for "Right Wing Death Squad", popular with far-right militia group
He also posted images of modern neo-Nazi groups, which he apparently took from the internet, writing next to them "my kind of people".The existence of the account was first detailed by investigators to the New York Times, and later identified by the open source intelligence website Bellingcat. According to Bellingcat, the shooter described himself online as a Latino who would "take my chances with the white supremacist[s]".The OK.RU account has the username “PsycoVision 5”. Its logo is a smiley face with a Hitler-style moustache. The account listed no friends or groups, suggesting Garcia may have used it like a personal diary, according to Bellingcat researcher Aric Toler.Toler said there were extensive personal pictures, photos of his identity papers, a traffic ticket, and other personal items that linked Garcia to the page. The gunman was shot dead by a police officer shortly after launching his attack on the Allen Premium Outlets on Saturday.
His victims were three members of a Korean-American family, parents Cindy and Kyu Cho and their three-year-old son James; two young sisters, Daniela Mendoza, 11, and Sofia Mendoza, eight; Aishwarya Thatikonda, 26, an Indian-American engineer; Christian LaCour, 20, a security guard at the mall; and Elio Cumana-Rivas, 32.
Garcia's Hispanic ethnicity sparked questions from some online commentators about his support for the white supremacy ideology of Nazis.
But Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a professor at American University who studies extremism, said it was not strange for a person who is not considered white in some communities to subscribe to white supremacist extremism (WSE).
"The very category of whiteness is always changing and neo-Nazi, WSE movements are not only about race," she wrote on Twitter.
Some ethnic minorities may identify or see themselves as white, she wrote.
"Some are attracted to other parts of the supremacist beliefs - the misogyny, the Christian supremacy," she said.