[Just The News] The FBI on Sunday indicted that the gunman in the Sunday morning mass shooting in Austin, Texas, possessed materials that could indicate a link to terrorism.
The shooting left 3 dead and 14 wounded. The gunman was killed on scene after police officers responded. A special agent with the San Antonio Field Office said in a press conference that the evidence recovered thus far indicated a "potential nexus to terrorism."
He asserted that it was too early to reach a final determination, but noted that materials in the gunman's vehicle and on his person suggested the link.
While the FBI did not identify the nature of possible terrorism, the attack comes amid ongoing U.S. strikes on Iran and retaliatory attacks across the Middle East from that country's military.
| The miscreant: Ndiaga Diagne, 53, of Senegal arrived in the US in 2000 on a B-2 tourist visa and became a lawful permanent resident (IR-6) when he married a US citizen in 2006, and got full citizenship in 2013 despite his growing rap sheet spanning New York and Texas that started in 2001. Law enforcement knew him as an emotionally disturbed person in both New York and Texas before Sunday’s bloody rampage, yet in 2016 he applied for asylum. |
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