3 Women Hospitalized After Triple Shooting at NW Dallas Hair Salon

[Sugar Cookie]

The search is underway for a man who entered a Northwest Dallas hair salon Wednesday afternoon and shot three women.

Dallas Police Sgt. Warren Mitchell said a man stopped his vehicle at about 2:22 p.m. walked across the shopping center parking lot and entered the Hair World Salon.

Once he was inside, Mitchell said the man shouted something unintelligible and began shooting.

Evidence markers commonly used to mark the location of shell casings at crime scenes indicate at least four shots were fired, three by the front door.

Three women inside the business were injured, all apparently shot in their extremities, Mitchell said. They were hospitalized with injuries not considered life-threatening. After the shooting, the man left the business, returned to his vehicle and left the scene.

The salon is a Korean-owned business. While the motive for the shooting has not been confirmed, Mitchell said investigators do not have any indication at this time that the shooting was a hate crime.

Three People Shot at a Dallas Hair Salon: Police

Dallas police are investigating a shooting at a hair salon in North Dallas.

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[Satanica]

A happy ending in that no one was seriously injured.

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Police are investigating whether a customer dispute sometime before the attack had anything to do with it. Meanwhile, federal agents are trying to determine if it was a hate crime.
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Gary Jung operates a neighboring business in the Koreatown area of Dallas, where there are many Korean-owned businesses.

"Something misunderstand," he said.

Jung says there was an earlier dispute inside the salon when stylists told an African American woman that they did not know how to cut her hair.

Police say they’re looking into reports of an earlier dispute, but they cannot confirm if it’s related to the shooting.

"We’re not ruling it out, but right now I don’t want to relate the two unless I’m for sure," Mitchell said.

Police were asked if there’s reason to believe the shooting might be a hate crime.

"At this time, we do not believe that this is a hate crime-related incident," Mitchell said. "But, again, we’re still in the early stages of the investigation."
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Northwest Dallas hair salon shooting leaves 3 women injured

Dallas police only have a vague description of the shooter they're looking for. But they are looking into the possibility it may have been connected to a customer who was refused service at the salon. Feds are also investigating if it was hate crime-related.

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[Satanica]

An arrest has been made in the May 11 shooting at Hair World Salon in the heart of Dallas' Koreatown, according to Dallas Police. Police have said the shooting may have been a hate crime.

Early Tuesday morning, police tweeted that a suspect was being interviewed and processed but offered no other information. Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia is expected to talk about the arrest later Tuesday.
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The three women shot in the attack have all since been released from the hospital.

The daughter of one of the injured women said her mother told her that the man, whom she didn’t recognize, calmly walked in, opened fire and left.
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Suspect Accused in Dallas Salon Shooting Had Asian Delusions: Girlfriend

A Black man whose girlfriend says he suffered from delusions is in custody, accused of opening fire inside Hair World Salon in the heart of Dallas’ Koreatown earlier this month and injuring three Asian women. Police have said the shooting may have been a hate crime.

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[Satanica]

DALLAS - The suspect arrested for shooting three women at a Dallas Koreatown hair salon and possibly connected to other hate crime-related shootings has a delusional fear of Asians, police records say.

According to jail records, Jeremy Smith, 36, was booked into the Dallas County jail Tuesday and charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

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An arrest affidavit says a witness saw the gunman get into a maroon minivan and flee the scene. Images of both were captured on grainy surveillance video.

The witness also got a partial license plate, which led detectives to the van and to Smith, who was then put under surveillance for three days prior to his arrest.

"We believe the shooting was intentional. Absolutely," Garcia said.

On Monday, Smith was taken in for outstanding traffic warrants and questioned. The arrest warrant states Smith admitted to being in the area of the salon at the time of the shooting reportedly looking for a business that could repair a panel of broken glass for a garage door.

The arrest warrant affidavit says Smith also admitted he was in the area on the day of the shooting, and his girlfriend told investigators he has panic attacks around people of Asian descent.

"The suspect had been involved in a motor vehicle crash with an Asian male about two years ago. Since the crash, the suspect has had near panic attacks when he is around anyone of Asian descent. Anytime the suspect is around anyone of Asian descent, he begins having delusions that the Asian mob is after him or attempting to harm him. Due to the delusions, the suspect has been admitted to several mental health facilities," the affidavit states.

Smith was also fired from his previous job at an Ulta Beauty warehouse for attacking his Asian boss, the document states.

Chief Garcia believes the shootings were racially motivated.
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Chief Garcia says it’s too soon to say if Smith is the man who is responsible for the two other shootings at the Asian-owned businesses. Right now, he says the common link is the maroon-colored minivan.

Smith was arrested Monday while he was working as a temp landscaper at Charles Allen’s DeSoto home.

"I didn’t know what was going on. I figured that maybe they had the wrong guy," Allen said. "I figured is this really the same person? And turns out this is the same person."

Allen cannot believe Smith’s highly sought-after arrest happened outside his home.

"A lot of things don’t shock me anymore, but I was extremely surprised that he would have done something like that," he said.

Smith remains in the Dallas County jail. His bond was set at $300,000.

Dallas Koreatown hair salon shooting suspect had 'delusional fear of Asians,' police records say

The arrest warrant affidavit says Jeremy Smith admitted he was in the area on the day of the shooting. His girlfriend told investigators he has panic attacks around people of Asian descent ever since a car crash with an Asian man two years ago.

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[Satanica]

NBC 5 Investigates has learned the vehicle used by the suspected gunman who opened fire inside a Dallas hair salon had a type of Texas temporary paper license plate that can make it more difficult for police to locate the owner of the car.
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NBC 5 obtained the tag number for the vehicle from a Dallas Police arrest warrant affidavit. The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles then confirmed Tuesday that the tag is what’s known as a “vehicle specific tag,” a type of paper tag that's supposed to be used by car dealers, primarily for test drives or moving vehicles from one dealer to another.

It's not clear why the suspect in the salon shooting, 37-year-old Jeremy Theron Smith, would have had one of these dealer tags, and Dallas police did not immediately respond to questions about the tag Tuesday night.

The TxDMV told NBC5 that the small Dallas County dealership that issued the tag had its dealer license revoked in April for violations of TxDMV rules, although the department would not say what specific rules were broken.

Vehicle specific tags are registered to a dealership and not to a person. So, if the vehicle is involved in a crime, police would first have to contact the dealer to find out who is driving the car, which can slow down an investigation.

But in this case, Dallas police appear to have made a major break in the case thanks to some high-tech policing.

According to a police affidavit, investigators were able to use data collected by license plate readers which had previously captured images of the paper tag on Smith’s car parked multiple times at an address in Dallas. Officers were then able to go to that address and locate the car.
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Hundreds of thousands of fraudulent paper tags have been sold illegally for profit, according to law enforcement investigators. And, our reporting has also shown how small dealers often misuse paper tags by putting certain types of temporary tags on cars that should not have them, creating even more challenges for police trying to sort out which ones are legitimate or not.

Texas lawmakers are now considering scrapping the state’s paper tag system to resolve ongoing safety concerns.

Tuesday, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson told NBC 5 he wants more action to deal with the tag problem saying in a statement, "...we will need more help from other law enforcement agencies and from Austin during the next legislative session. We all must work together to put public safety first and stop the unscrupulous dealers, criminals and criminal enterprises that are using these tags."
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Vehicle Used in Dallas Salon Shooting Had Paper Tag

The vehicle used by the suspected gunman who opened fire inside a Dallas hair salon had a type of Texas temporary paper license plate that can make it more difficult for police to locate the owner of the car, NBC 5 Investigates learned.

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[Sugar Cookie]

I saw his arrest and did not put it with this shooting - thanks for the update @Satanica

Mentally ill?

 

[Satanica]

I think he must be if all of that was caused by a car accident. Or, he's making that shit up.

 

[cubby]

If he's this triggered by Asians he needs to be put away forever. He is absolutely a danger to society.

 

[DeeDee]

I don't know the demographics of every city in America (because I don't care what colors people are. I have real problems to worry about), but if this guy is triggered into panic by the presence of Asians, I can't actually figure out where he could possibly go live then? It's best to just keep him locked up forever.

I have lived multiple states and multiple provinces in Canada as well. Asian people of all types were in every place. Even deep in the backwoods of Nova Scotia, my school bus driver Mon-Wed was Chinese.

Interesting that he supposedly got such trauma from the accident that he focused his fears on Asian people but wasn't afraid to drive again.

 

[Satanica]

There aren't many asians on my end of things in N Texas. Perhaps he should've moved to a different part of the area. Where I am, if you stay away from donut shops, you may not encounter any at all. I did see an asian clerk at a new Texaco with a little store inside.

 

[DeeDee]

I did part of my growing up in Bryan. Definitely had Asian kids in my class so they must have had parents around town somewhere lol.

I just shake my head at his reasoning skills. If I had a weird racist panic problem I would search out therapy not shoot up a salon. And why the salon? Seems those were Asians he could easily avoid by just not going there.

I think he's just a racist mental asshole that uses whatever crash happened as his excuse to be a hateful piece of garbage.

 

[Satanica]

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Doctor John Park said medical school did not prepare him for the day his mother was shot.

“I pronounced at least 200 people [dead] during the Covid-era because I was in New York at the time as an internist,” he said. “Even that kind of experience as a physician, I don’t think any of that prepared me for this.”

Park says for some reason, his mother ventured to Hair World Salon in Dallas’ Koreatown neighborhood to get her hair done on the afternoon of May 11.

She had never visited the salon before.

The 58-year-old Korean immigrant, wife, mother of two and donut shop owner then found herself in the middle of a chaotic and traumatizing situation.

Police said Jeremy Smith stopped his van on Royal Lane, walked into the salon and opened fire. Park recounted what his mother told him: “He just stormed in, didn’t really say anything, didn’t really demand anything. My mom made eye contact with him, and he was already beginning to fire shots. She said he probably fired at least 10 to 15 shots. She heard many, many multiple gunshots. They were very loud. People were screaming. She saw the blood splashes from the other people.”
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His mother, whom he asked not to identify by name, suffered a gunshot to the buttocks area.

“From my own medical knowledge, she dodged paralysis by about two to three centimeters,” he said. “She was extremely lucky.”

The survivors are now trying to heal, both physically and mentally.

“My mom is afraid to go outside. She’s having insomnia, she’s never had that issue before. She cries a lot. I’m worried about her mental well-being, to be honest,” said Park.

Asked whether he believes this case is another example of Asian hate crimes, as reported across the country, Park said he’s not sure.

“I actually want to believe that it was a mental illness that led to this incident, rather than a pure racially motivated crime,” he said. “That would actually make us feel better. It’s hard to know. If that was the case, then he himself is another victim in some way.”

A ‘victim’ he said in that perhaps the medical world somehow did not meet his needs.

“It's a healthcare provider's job, you know, there are medicines out there to suppress those thoughts, delusions, hallucinations, those medications actually work very well,” he said. “These are risky, people, risky population. Maybe there was a pitfall in society, and we let them loose.”

The medical expert says he can one day forgive Smith if mental illness was indeed behind the attack, but he could never forgive an attack out of sheer hatred.
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Son of Dallas Salon Shooting Survivor: ‘She Was Extremely Lucky'

The son of a survivor from a shooting at Dallas’ Hair World Salon speaks out on the aftermath of the life-changing event saying she’s lucky to be alive.

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[Satanica]

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Jeremy Smith was indicted on seven charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

The indictments include a hate crime enhancement that carries a possible life sentence if Smith is convicted.

Police are still investigating whether Smith fired shots at two other Asian businesses where no one was injured.
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Dallas Koreatown shooting suspect indicted on 7 hate crimes

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