

The gunman shot 15 people within three or four minutes. Wearing black tactical gear, the shooter exited a silver Dodge Charger and shot into a crowd outside the mall. The shooting began on May 6, 2023, at 3:36 p.m. The center is located 25 miles (40 km) north of Dallas, Texas, in a northern suburb of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Opened in September 2000, Allen Premium Outlets is a large outdoor mall owned by Simon Property Group.

His body was tattooed with fascist symbols including SS lightning bolts and a large swastika. He committed the massacre while wearing a tactical vest embroidered with a "RWDS" (" Right Wing Death Squad") patch. Garcia's extensive online writings showed that he self-radicalized, adopting and promoting white supremacist, neo-Nazi, and " incel" ideologies, and posting hateful comments against women, Jews and racial minorities in the lead-up to the attack. The shooter, 33-year-old Mauricio Martinez Garcia, was a far-right extremist, although his specific motive for the spree killings was not clear.

The perpetrator was fatally shot by a police officer already in the area on an unrelated call. Nine people, including the perpetrator, were killed during the shooting, the youngest of whom was a three-year-old boy, and seven others were injured. On May 6, 2023, a mass shooting occurred at Allen Premium Outlets, an outlet center in Allen, Texas, United States.
