Sorry, got nothing trivial, fun, or creative to share today. You wouldn’t want to see the photos they’re showing online, including on the trash site that is now Twitter.
From NBC News:
At a Dallas-area outlet mall (near Allen, Texas), a gunman killed eight people. The 33-year-old shooter, a neo-Nazi sympathizer with an AR-15 style-assault weapon, was killed by a police officer who happened to be at the Allen shopping center, authorities said.
The violence was the second deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. this year and was the second mass shooting in Texas in a little over a week.
Six victims of the Allen Premium Outlets shooting, three of whom are in critical condition, remained at Medical City Healthcare facilities, the health care provider said in a statement.
Four of the victims were at Medical City McKinney, an acute care hospital and Level II trauma center, where three were in critical condition and one was in “fair condition,” the health care provider said.
One patient was in fair condition at Medical City Children’s Hospital, and another was also listed in fair condition at Medical City Plano.
The Texas Department of Safety is the lead agency investigating the Saturday shooting. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Allen Police Department are also assisting with the investigation.
Texas has been rocked by seven mass shootings since a gunman killed 21 people at an elementary school in the city of Uvalde in May 2022, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.
In the 12 months since the Uvalde massacre, mass shootings have occurred in the Texas cities of Centerville, Houston, McGregor, Fort Worth, Dallas, Cleveland, and now Allen.
ETA: Names
Two young sisters, Daniela Mendoza, 11, and Sofia Mendoza, 8, were killed in the shooting.
Also killed, a 3-year-old boy, James Cho, and his parents, Cindy and Kyu. Their older son, a 6-year-old, was wounded in the shooting but survived.
Christian LaCour, 20, a mall security guard, was also among the deceased victims.
Aishwarya Thatikonda, 26, a civil engineer from India, was also killed.
Elio Cumana-Rivas, a 32-year-old from Dallas, was killed.
I will never understand this senseless, evil killing.
I’m not sure it’s possible to understand the minds of killers. But it’s certainly possible to understand the motives of those who allow killings to continue.