Just a couple of nights previously, she had actually called LaCour when a consumer desired in after hours. He came and asked the man to leave, and after that provided a security escort to her and 2 teenage staff members.
“He wanted us to feel safe,” Gaither said.
“I’m just in shock,” she included. “He was very young, very sweet, came in all the time to visit with us.”
Also killed was Aishwarya Thatikonda, 26, who was from India, held an academic degree in building management and worked as a civil engineer at a the Dallas-location company Perfect General Contractors.
She was “always prepared to give her very best,” business creator Srinivas Chaluvadi said through email.
He said her moms and dads reside in Hyderabad, India, where her dad is a judge.
“She came to the United States with a dream to make a career, build a family, own a home and live forever in Dallas,” Chaluvadi said.
Chaluvadi said Thatikonda would have turned 27 next week and she had actually ended up being like like family: “She attended birthday parties at my home, we celebrated festivals together and we had family dinners.”
Ashok Kolla, treasurer of the Telugu Association of North America, informed The Dallas Morning News that he didn’t understand Thatikonda however the association frequently assists households and he is working to send her body back home.
DPS has actually determined the 8th victim as Elio Cumana-Rivas, 32.
Authorities are still attempting to piece together what resulted in the attack, which ended when the presumed shooter — 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia — was fatally shot by cops.
Federal authorities are checking out whether Garcia revealed an interest in white supremacist ideology, a police authorities informed The Associated Press. The main warned that the examination remains in its early phases.
Federal representatives have actually been examining social networks accounts they think Garcia utilized, in addition to posts that revealed interest in white supremacist and neo-Nazi views, said the authorities, who might not talk about information of the examination openly and spoke with the AP on condition of privacy.
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Alvarez reported from Los Angeles and Reynolds from Louisville, Kentucky. Associated Press author Michael Balsamo in Washington contributed.
Jamie Stengle, Vanessa A. Alvarez And Rebecca Reynolds, The Associated Press
