The attacker who gunned down revelers at a bar in Austin, Texas, over the weekend appears to have posted antisemitic, anti-Christian and misogynistic posts in the year and a half leading up to the deadly shooting, according to law enforcement sources in Texas. Three people were killed and more than a dozen others wounded in the rampage early Sunday, one day after the U.S. and Israel struck Iran.
The X account investigators believe is linked to the gunman was created in October 2024 and its most recent post is from December. A law enforcement source briefed on the investigation said the gunman had previously posted pro-Iranian messaging, pro-Islam and anti-Christian comments, but there were no posts found so far indicating his plans or intentions to attack.
Last April, when tensions between Israel and Iran were spiking, one post read: “THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IS ETERNAL … you Zionist and islamophobes can be angry all you want but you can’t do a damn thing about it no matter what.”
The post was a reply to an April 28 post by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s foreign minister, Seyed Abbas Araghi, in which he criticized President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
