The gunman who shot killed eight people and wounded seven others at an Allen outlet mall appears to have included a Nazi symbol in his signature when he applied for a security guard license in 2015.
Records obtained by KERA show that Mauricio Garcia included the “SS” symbol used by a notorious Nazi paramilitary organization known as the Schutzstaffel multiple times on documents for his application to become a “commissioned security officer” in 2015. The records on file with the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Private Security Bureau.
Garcia placed the symbol between is first name and his last.
The Southern Poverty Law Center reported Garcia’s posted photos of himself with that same symbol and a swastika tattooed on his body on a Russian social media site.
Garcia indicated on his application that he had not been found by a court to be incompetent “by reason of mental defect” and had not been diagnosed by a licensed physician “as suffering from a psychiatric disorder or condition that causes or is likely to cause substantial impairment in judgment, mood, perception, impulse control or intellectual ability.”
He joined the Army in June 2008 and served for about three months before he was separated from service without completing his initial training. The nature of his discharge from the Army was not disclosed, which is policy.
But according to news accounts, his separation involved “physical or mental conditions.” He indicated on his application that he had not received a “dishonorable discharge, a bad conduct discharge, or any other than honorable discharge’ from the military.
KERA reached out to DPS for a comment on Garcia’s signature on his application via email and phone call. The department didn’t respond before this story was published.
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