![]() ![]() You can also subscribe to our Patreon channel here. If you would like to support our work, you can do so here. Jake Godin of Scripps News contributed to this article.īellingcat is a non-profit and the ability to carry out our work is dependent on the kind support of individual donors. However, these images were all from external sources and at no point were any of these posts described as being of the shooter himself. The OK account also shared an assortment of photographs showing various people dressed in Nazi attire with the caption: “My kind of people”. The Nazi tattoos appear consistent with much of the writings on the OK account.ĭespite online speculation that the shooter was a member of drug cartels, there is no evidence to suggest that this was the case. These included a shoulder tattoo of the state of Texas and references to the city of Fort Worth, Texas. Other images showed a selection of more benign tattoos. On 5 April 2023, an image of a speeding ticket with Garcia’s name and date of birth visible was posted to the OK account.Ī further image from the Odnoklassniki profile shows Garcia, with his face clearly visible, and the same tattoos detailed in the green and blue boxes. Outside of contextual clues – such as a farewell post right before the 6 May shooting – the account also contains numerous photographs of identification documents. How do we Know it’s Really Mauricio Garcia’s Profile? Garcia also posted countless photographs from his personal, handwritten diary on his OK page, although Bellingcat is not sharing these here so as not to further promote their content. – on other mainstream social networks like Instagram or Facebook, it would be taken down quite quickly. If he posted most of the content of this account – swastikas, threats of violence, etc. It is possible that he was using this account as a sort of personal diary where he would not be subject to content moderation. He had zero friends on his OK account, and was not in any groups. We know that Garcia had accounts on YouTube and Facebook from his posts on OK, but they were frequently suspended. The OK account in question was initially disclosed in a New York Times article on 8 May.Ī search for US men born on the same date as Mauricio Garcia on the Odnoklassniki platform. Odnoklassniki is the second-largest Russian-language social network site behind VK. What is Odnoklassniki and how was this Profile Found? What follows is a breakdown of the content of the OK page, how we found it and how all available evidence points to it being tied to the shooter. The account also espoused far-right viewpoints and contained pictures of Garcia showing off at least two Nazi tattoos. This case appears to be no different.Īn Odnoklassniki (OK) account containing identification documents displaying Garcia’s name and date of birth, what appear to be diary entries and a declaration posted shortly before the shooting point to this being the primary social profile of the shooter. The United States has a long and troubling history of mass shootings, with many of those who carry out such attacks leaving a trail of digital evidence. In the days since nine people (including the gunman) were shot and killed at a mall in Allen, Texas, investigators and journalists have been looking to trace the online footprint of the shooter, named by authorities as 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia.
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