Houston Gunman A Trump Supporter, Railed Against ‘Homosexuals’ During Sunday’s Rampage

Army Vet Fired 212 Shots, Also Attacked Muslims, GOP Establishment on Twitter

The gunman who went on a shooting spree Sunday morning in Houston, leaving one dead and six injured, was a supporter of presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. He railed against homosexuals and Jews during the rampage, before he was killed by police.

Dionisio Garza III, 25, also recently expressed anti-Muslim sentiments on Twitter, and repeatedly criticized House Speaker Paul Ryan and the GOP establishment. 

Garza, a decorated Army sergeant who served two tours in Afghanistan, suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and was going through “a mental health crisis,” according to media reports. Garza fired 212 rounds in a middle-class west Houston neighborhood, injuring two law enforcement officers and setting a gas station on fire, before being killed by a SWAT team member. 

According to The Houston Chronicle, the spree began when Garza walked up to 56-year-old Eugene Lipscomb, who was sitting in his vehicle at a car wash, and called him “the devil” before fatally shooting him in the head with a pistol. 

Garza then told the owners of the car wash: “Y’all calm down. I’m not going to kill y’all, y’all are Christians.” 

As he retreated before returning with an AR-15 assault rifle, Garza was screaming about Jews, homosexuals and Walmart, according to the Chronicle. 

Garza, who’d traveled to Houston from his home in California to visit a friend, broke into a nearby tire shop and slept there the night before the shooting, leaving random writings on paper taped to the walls. Police haven’t disclosed the contents of the writings but say they don’t believe the shooting was a hate crime. 

Back in February, Garza tweeted to Trump, “I’ve told everyone since August u will be President of this great nation. On the eve of your first votes I thank you. -vet.” 

Last August, after NBC cut ties with Trump over his hateful comments concerning Mexican immigrants, Garza tweeted, “get them Mr .Trump… bunch of liars and puppets. I am an army vet 2 deployments..I stand with U.”

Last month, after being elected London’s first Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan wrote on Twitter: “Trump’s ignorant view of Islam could make both our countries less safe. It risks alienating mainstream Muslims. London has proved him wrong.” 

Garza responded: “We are too smart for your (expletive,)” Garza said. “USA baby … sorry Europe.”

 

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