FBI investigates Dallas shooting in Koretown as hate crime
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Police have arrested a suspect in connection with a shooting that injured three women at a barber shop in the town of Koreyatown, and federal officials have launched an investigation into hate crimes, authorities said Tuesday. Video on the topic above: How to talk to children about mass violence, hate crime. The suspect was questioned and examined, the Dallas Police Department said, and Chief Eddie Garcia is expected to release additional information about the arrest later that day. Garcia said last Wednesday’s shooting at the Hair World Salon could be linked to two other shootings at an enterprise run by Asian Americans. Also on Tuesday, the FBI said it had launched a federal investigation into hate crimes along with the U.S. Attorney General’s Office of the North Texas District and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. Urbina. ”As this investigation continues, we cannot comment further.” The shooting in Dallas came days before a white gunman killed 10 black people Saturday at a Buffalo supermarket in New York City, and authorities said armed men motivated by political hatred of Taiwan on Sunday killed one person and injured five people in a church in southern California, where mostly elderly Taiwanese parishioners gathered. Garcia said investigators found that a similar car was reportedly involved in two other incidents. recent shootings, including travel on April 2 in the area where the salon is located. No one was injured in any of the shootings. Garcia said the vehicle was also linked to a shooting that took place on May 10 about 25 miles southeast of the mall where the shooting took place on Wednesday. Three women who were shot dead in the cabin were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Jane Bay, the daughter of one of the injured women, told the Associated Press last week that her mother told her that a man she did not recognize quietly entered, opened fire and then left. “He was calm. He just walked up to him and then stood – didn’t go around – but stood and fired like 20 shots and then just calmly came out,” said Bae, who was not there but was talking to his mother. The salon is located in the heart of Koreyatown, located in a part of the city that in the 1980s evolved from an industrial area into a thriving area with shops, canteens, markets, medical offices and salons. Anti-Asian violence has risen sharply in recent years. Last year, six women of Asian descent were among the eight killed in shootings at massage campaigns in Atlanta and nearby, which heightened anger and fear among Asian Americans.
DALAS –
Police have arrested a suspect in a shooting case that injured three women at a barber shop in the city’s Korean Quarter, and federal officials have launched an investigation into hate crimes, authorities said Tuesday.
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The Dallas Police Department said the suspect was questioned and processed, and Chief Eddie Garcia is expected to release more information about the arrest later that day.
Garcia said the shooting at the hair salon last Wednesday may have been linked to two other shootings at businesses run by Asian Americans.
Also Tuesday, the FBI said it had launched a federal investigation into hate crimes along with the North District Attorney’s Office and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.
“We are in close contact with Dallas police and are working together to thoroughly investigate the incident,” said FBI Dallas FBI spokeswoman Melinda Urbina. “As the investigation continues, we cannot comment further.”
The shooting in Dallas took place a few days before a white gunman killed 10 black people on Saturday in Buffalo, New Yorksupermarket and Militant authorities said they were motivated by political hatred of Taiwan One person was killed and five were injured Sunday at a church in southern California, where mostly elderly Taiwanese parishioners gathered.
Authorities said a man dressed in black opened fire in a Dallas saloon and then drove off in a burgundy minivan. Garcia said investigators found that a similar car was reportedly involved in two other recent shootings, including a drive on April 2 in the area where the salon is located. No one was injured in any of the shootings.
Garcia said the vehicle was also linked to the May 10 shooting, about 25 miles southeast of the mall where the shooting took place on Wednesday.
Three women who were shot in the cabin were taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Jane Bay, the daughter of one of the injured women, told the Associated Press last week that her mother told her that a man she did not recognize calmly entered, opened fire and then left.
“He was calm. He just walked up to him and then stood – didn’t go around – but stood and did 20 shots and then just came out calmly,” said Bae, who was not there but was talking to her mother.
The salon is located in the heart of Koreyatown, located in a part of the city that in the 1980s evolved from an industrial area into a thriving area with shops, canteens, markets, medical offices and salons.
Anti-Asian violence has risen sharply in recent years. Last year, six women of Asian descent were among the eight killed in shootings at massage campaigns in Atlanta and nearby, which heightened anger and fear among Asian Americans.
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