Police on Saturday night searched a home near Bishop Lynch High School in connection with a mass shooting Saturday at the Allen Premium Outlet stores about 25 miles north of our neighborhood, according to Associated Press.
The alleged gunman who killed eight and wounded seven more at an outdoor mall before police killed him has been identified as 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia, according to a press release from the City of Allen.
Authorities executed two search warrants — one at an extended stay hotel where Garcia was purportedly living before the massacre and another at a residence on Piper Lane in East Dallas.
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A woman who lives three houses down from the house that was searched told the Associated Press she saw a large group of uniformed officers go into the home Saturday between 6-7 p.m.
“They went in like real fast, and I seen them do that like twice,” Marsha Alexander told the AP. She said officers were still in the area when she went to bed at 9-10 p.m. and were gone by Sunday morning.
CBS News reports that the residence on Piper Lane belongs to Garcia’s parents.
Mauricio Garcia is listed as a member of Bryan Adams High School class of 2009.
A source told Dallas Morning News reporters the Garcia family had lived near him on Piper Lane for the entire 13 years he has lived there.
He and another Piper Lane resident told the newspaper the Garcias were “cordial” and that the alleged killer Mauricio “would say hello warmly” but hardly spoke with the neighbors.
Neighbors told CBS reporters they “would see Garcia come and go to work, dressed in a uniform that looked similar to a security guard’s.”
No one in the house on Piper Lane spoke with any members of the media, not for lack of effort. “At about 2 p.m. Sunday, a man entered the home that was searched, but when reporters knocked on the door and waited, no one answered,” AP reports.
The City of Allen said in a press update that as of Sunday morning, Medical City McKinney was treating four patients. One patient was transferred to trauma center at Medical City Plano, another to Dallas’ Medical City Children’s Hospital. One more was treated at another hospital.
The mental health organization LifePath Systems is working with local law enforcement, the Texas Department of Public Safety (which is leading the investigation) and Texas Health and Human Services, to provide free emotional support, trauma response and the services of licensed clinicians to all those impacted by the tragedy.
If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, help is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you or someone you know needs assistance, please call 972.422.5939 or visit LifePathSystems.org.
