What is Psychovision 5? Mauricio Garcia posts surface online in wake of Bellingcat findings

June 29, 2024

The social media activity of the Allen, Texas shopping mall shooter, Mauricio Garcia has surfaced online. The person behind the eight-people massacre appears to have posted pro-Nazi content online. It also seems as if the attack was well thought through prior. His account began making headlines after Aric Toler, a Bellingcat researcher shared the mass killer’s racist rants which also included extremely disturbing content.

Aric Toler shared a long Twitter thread that detailed Mauricio Garcia’s OK.RU social media activity. The account, which is believed to be that of the shooter, had nearly 2000 posts but no followers. The page included images of his weapons, ammunition, manifesto, and his support of right-winged beliefs.

Mauricio Garcia posted on the Russian social networking site under the profile name “Psycho Vision 5.” The profile pictures showed a smiley face emoji with Adolf Hitler’s mustache. The account chronicled the shooter’s Nazi fixation and radical beliefs.

The 33-year-old expressed a fascination with mass shootings and white supremacy on his social media accounts. He also uploaded a series of images outside the Allen Outlet Mall’s entrances, where he would go on to open fire.

The Bellingcat findings also uncovered a YouTube account that is believed to be that of Mauricio Garcia. In the same, one can see him slowly removing a Scream mask and speaking something incomprehensible with a voice emulator. The video was posted on the day of the shooting.

Mauricio Garcia’s Psycho Vision 5 account activity explored

Aric Toler, the director of training and research at the Bellingcat research collective told netizens that they were able to track Garcia’s social media account by searching for active accounts in the US with the same birthday as that of Garcia’s.

In one of the disturbing social media posts, Garcia was seen showing off his Nazi Swastika chest tattoo and also a Nazi SS bolts tattoo. He wrote in the caption- “Here’s what I think about your diversity you f**king losers.” In another image, he showed off his body armor which included a patch that read “RWDS,” which stands for “right-wing death squad.”

The shooter had also shared images of the aforementioned mall on his account. The screenshots indicated the shopping center’s busiest hours.

Garcia also posted screenshots of right-wing commentator Tim Pool’s videos. In another recent post, he cited white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Garcia wrote online:

“Hell Nick Fuentes said something like that while he was on the pearl show. I think I even read in the news Hispanics could be the news white supremist. Just the other day this black dude told me the line is blurring. He can’t tell the difference anymore. Someone would look white but their actually Hispanic.”

In other posts, Garcia used bigotry language towards women, Jewish people, and racial minorities. He also called himself an “incel” and wrote online:

“I hate women. Their I’ve said it.”

His page also included references to the Daily Stormer, which is a neo-Nazi white supremacist website. In his anti-Semitic post, he said:

“America is controlled by a cabal of scheming Jews, and the time has come to rise up against them.”

The mass shooter also expressed fascination towards Jeffrey Dahmer and mentioned Parkland, Florida school shooter Nikolas Crus in one of his posts.

Mauricio Garcia OK.RU account also included several other concerning posts which have been included in the Billings findings.

Allen now mourns the death of eight victims who were between the ages of three and 37. A series of disturbing videos of the shooting has gone viral online.

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