Another shooting in Dallas left one person dead and two people injured just a day after eight people were killed at a mall in Allen — this time aboard the city’s high-speed DART train.
The fatal altercation occurred around 4:30 p.m. Sunday in South Dallas aboard a northbound Green Line train near Hatcher Station, and was reportedly the result of a disagreement between two passengers.
A total of two people were shot, a spokesman for the light rail system said Sunday night, including a bystander, DART spokesman Gordon Shattles told me. CNN. They were both taken to a hospital in Dallas, where one of them died.
Police added that a third victim, believed to have been hit by shrapnel, was treated at the scene. Police in charge of the four lines and 65 stations of the DART system are now leading the search for the suspect – who is still at large.
It happened a day after a mall shooter, Mauricio Garcia, left eight dead in the small Dallas suburb of Allen at an outdoor store when the 33-year-old unleashed more than 100 rounds from his AR-15 rifle.
The scene at Hatcher Station DART Light Rail station in Dallas, Texas
Dash cam footage from Saturday’s shooting showed Garcia pulling up to the store in a Dodge Charger before opening fire, beating and killing right people, including children.
The footage — as well as photos of the late gunman after he was subdued — showed him dressed in full tactical gear, with an extra handgun and multiple magazines.
He was eventually killed by the unnamed police officer – who was on the scene for an unrelated phone call, but rushed when he heard the gunshots outside the H&M.
Garcia was a security guard, but it’s unclear if he worked at Allen Premium Outlets, or if he had any connection to them.
On Sunday, sources told WFAA that Garcia had experience in the US military and served in the US military in 2008 before being removed over concerns about his mental health.
Garcia also apparently had several social media accounts active before the shooting, which appear to have been scrubbed amid the ongoing investigation from state and federal officials.
The profiles, the sources said, showed the Dallas resident’s preference for neo-Nazi and white supremacist content, as officials have yet to release the names of his eight victims or the condition of at least seven others injured.
One of the eight victims, 20-year-old Christian LaCour, was identified on Sunday by a Facebook post from a family member.
Mauricio Garcia, the suspected neo-Nazi sympathizer who killed eight people at a mall in Allen, Texas, seen here after being shot dead by a heroic cop
Christian LaCour, 20, was the first of Garcia’s victims to be identified Sunday. His grandmother described him as ‘such a beautiful soul’
Multiple sources identified Garcia as the Allen Outlet mall shooter Sunday, after the massacre Saturday afternoon. Aerial photos show the fatalities of the incident, including children
Officials overseeing the investigation have yet to name the deceased, although one victim, 20-year-old Christian LaCour, was identified on Sunday by a family member’s Facebook post.
Other footage and snaps taken at the scene, meanwhile, are helping to pinpoint exactly what happened at the open-air mall – with the first shots fired outside H&M, before the gunman was killed by an Allen PD officer a few shops away
LaCour, a Farmersville resident who also worked as a security guard, was mourned by his grandmother Sandra Montgomery, who said she was “so proud of him.”
“My beautiful grandson, Christian LaCour, was the guard who died in the Allen Texas shooting. He was such a beautiful soul,” she wrote.
LaCour’s sister’s mother-in-law also wrote, “Words can’t even begin to describe the devastation our family is feeling,” she said in the post. ‘[There] will forever be a void.’
According to witness accounts, at least one of the others killed by Garcia was a child before he himself was shot dead in the crowded stores sometime after 3 p.m.