*Police claim they are not sure why yet another suspected white supremacist male erupted in a shooting spree after a routine traffic stop in West Texas over the weekend.
Authorities said Seth Aaron Ator, 36 injured 22 people Saturday, killing seven, before officers fatally shot him outside a movie theater in Odessa. According to several reports, those killed were between 15 and 57 years old.
Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke said there are still no answers pointing to a motive for the attacks. But many “woke” Twitters users ain’t buying it.
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This is the #OdessaTexas shooting suspect Seth Ator. Law enforcement made sure they erased all of his social media and online footprints before they announced his name today.
This is how suspected white supremacists stay on code with each other and protect each other’s actions pic.twitter.com/73n0ulnhpz
— Tariq Nasheed ?? (@tariqnasheed) September 1, 2019
Filmmaker and self-proclaimed race baiter Tariq Nasheed shared a photo of the gunman on Twitter, along with the caption: “This is the #OdessaTexas shooting suspect Seth Ator. Law enforcement made sure they erased all of his social media and online footprints before they announced his name today,” he wrote.
Adding, “This is how suspected white supremacists stay on code with each other and protect each other’s actions.”
Many users co-sign his comments. What do you think?
Ator’s killing spree began when he was pulled over by Texas state troopers on Interstate 20 for failing to signal a left turn. Before the vehicle came to a complete stop, he “pointed a rifle toward the rear window of his car and fired several shots” toward the patrol car striking a trooper, per MSN.com. The crazed gunman then fled and continued shooting.
Following the mass shooting, Texas lawmakers loosened gun restrictions by legalizing a new set of firearms laws that will allow licensed handgun owners to legally carry weapons to school, foster homes, churches and more, Complex reports. It’s a move that comes almost two years after a gunman killed 26 people at Sutherland Springs church.
Not only did the Odessa gunman have a criminal history…
…he also previously failed a gun purchase background check in Texas…
…& he didn’t go thru a background check for the gun he used in Odessa.
We must keep guns out of criminals’ hands. https://t.co/vgrqcHtBtF
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) September 2, 2019
Texas has had four of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in modern U.S. history. Prior to Saturday’s shooting, the mass shooting in an El Paso Walmart last month killed 22 people.
Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke refused to say the name of the shooter during a news conference, saying he wouldn’t give him notoriety. But police later posted Ator’s name on Facebook.
Odessa police chief refuses to publicly name the suspect for Saturday’s mass shooting: “I’m not going to give him any notoriety for what he did” https://t.co/H9n7JKbYS7 pic.twitter.com/NieQouVIJ9
— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 1, 2019
One Twitter user had this to say about the delay in releasing the suspect’s name and photo: “The police are friendly toward “mass shooters” because they were raised the same way…to hate everybody! The shooter lives around the block or in the next bedroom from the police. Tell the truth and shame the Devil.”
Saturday’s shooting brings the number of mass killings in America so far this year to 25, according to The AP/USATODAY/Northeastern University mass murder database.
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