Attack investigated as a hate crime and could be connected to two other shootings at Asian American-run businesses, authorities say. Dallas police have arrested a suspect in connection with a shooting that wounded three women in a hair salon in the city’s Koreatown, and federal officials are investigating the attack as a hate crime, authorities said on Tuesday. The suspect was being interviewed and processed, the Dallas police department said, and Chief Eddie Garcia was expected to release additional information about the arrest later in the day. Garcia has said last Wednesday’s shooting at Hair World Salon could be connected to two other shootings at businesses run by Asian Americans. Also Tuesday, the FBI said it had opened a federal hate crime investigation along with the US attorney’s office for the northern district of Texas and the US Department of Justice’s civil rights division. (…) Anti-Asian violence has risen sharply in recent years. Last year, six women of Asian descent were among the eight killed in a shooting at massage businesses in and near Atlanta, heightening anger and fear among Asian Americans.
via guardian: Dallas shooting: suspect arrested in Koreatown hair salon attack that injured three
siehe auch: Drei Verletzte in Dallas Schüsse in Friseursalon: US-Polizei ermittelt wegen Hassverbrechen. Am Samstag hat ein mutmaßlich rassistischer Täter in Buffalo mehrere Menschen erschossen. In der vergangenen Woche könnte es in Dallas ebenfalls eine rassistische Attacke gegeben haben: In einem Friseursalon im koreanischen Viertel wurden drei Frauen verletzt. Die US-Polizei schließt bei einem Verbrechen mit drei Verletzten in einem Friseursalon im koreanischen Viertel der Stadt Dallas ein rassistisches Motiv nicht aus. Man untersuche den Vorfall als Hassverbrechen, teilte das FBI in Dallas am Dienstag mit. Die Tat hatte sich bereits in der vergangenen Woche ereignet. Medienberichten zufolge eröffnete eine komplett in schwarz gekleidete Person das Feuer und verletzte drei Frauen.