Monday morning, a man in Houston wounded nine people in a random mass shooting near a shopping center. (None have died; the shooter was killed by responding police.) The shooter is believed to have been a lawyer named Nathan Desai who was having trouble in his career and who had recently threatened an individual doing roofing work at his apartment complex. He also apparently had a thing for Nazism. From a Houston TV station:
Law enforcement sources said that the shooter was wearing what appeared to be an antique German uniform with Swastikas on it. … Investigators also combed through the shooter’s apartment, where they found what appeared to be Nazi paraphernalia inside, according to a law enforcement source.
The car that Desai was driving when he opened fire was a Porsche, which along with the details about his job would seem to indicate that he doesn’t fit the loner/fringe weirdo profile of many racial extremists. More to come on this story, one assumes.
