A gunman wearing a ‘Property of Allah’ shirt who opened fire on a Texas bar may have been an Islamic terrorist motivated by the US strikes on Iran, police have said.
Two people were shot dead and 14 more were wounded at a packed-out bar in Austin during the early hours of Sunday, before officers killed the attacker in return fire.
A law enforcement source identified the shooter to the Daily Mail as Ndiaga Diagne, 53, an ex-New York City resident and US citizen originally from Senegal.
FBI officials told a press conference the gunman had materials that ‘were indications of a potential nexus to terrorism‘.
He was found to have a Quran in his car, wore ‘Islamic’ clothing when he opened fire on the bar, and may have been motivated by US strikes in Iran.
Diagne was wearing a shirt reading ‘Property of Allah’, and according to Fox News he was possibly wearing an undershirt or t-shirt that had an Iranian flag or Iranian representations on it.
The suspect also has a history of arrests in Texas, and is believed to have lived in New York City from 2000 to 2008.
The horror unfolded at Buford’s bar on West Sixth Street in Austin’s Entertainment District just before 2am on Sunday, according to officials.
Hopefully, he was removed from the list of the living ….