The gunman who killed three people, including an indian-american student, Savitha Shan, in Austin, Texas, in the US, reportedly had terror links, a new FBI probe reveals.
During the shooting, Ndiaga Diagne, 53, wore a T-shirt stamped with an Iranian flag design, sources said.
The suspect also had the words “Property of Allah” written on his clothes, a law enforcement official who spoke to AP said.
Investigators are now probing whether the weekend shooting was inspired by this week’s US strikes on Iran, BBC reported.
Savitha Shan, who was majoring in management information systems and economics at the University of Texas, was 21 years old at the time of the shooting. The two other victims were 19-year-old Ryder Harrington and 30-year-old Jorge Pederson.
The Austin Police Department are planing to hold a news conference on the shooting on Thursday.
Diagne is a Senegalese immigrant who became a US citizen.
He was not on the radar of the local police or the FBI before the attack on Sunday on West Sixth Street in Austin . He had arrived in the US in 2000 on a B-2 tourist visa and then became a lawful permanent resident six years later after marrying an American.
The source who spoke to CBS News also said that he had a history of mental health issues. He was sued for severely injuring a woman in a vehicle crash and was arrested four times between 2001 and 2016.
A probe into his background revealed that he had posted misogynistic, anti-Semitic, and anti-Christian posts in the year and a half leading up to the attack . He also had made pro-Iranian pro-Islam posts. However, there were no posts that indicated his plans to attack in a mass shooting incident.
Texas shooting suspect, who killed Indian-origin student, wore clothes with Iranian flag design, FBI probe says
