The gunman who killed a tourist and wounded several others at Mexico’s famous Teotihuacan ruins on Monday may have purposefully planned the date of the horrific terror attack for sickening reasons.
April 20, while widely celebrated innocently as “4/20” among marijuana enthusiasts, also has a much darker history — marking the date of the notorious Columbine High School massacre and what would have been the birthday of Germany’s genocidal Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
The shooter, 27-year-old Julio César Jasso Ramirez, was reportedly a Nazi sympathizer who was seen in photos making the Heil Hitler salute, prosecutors told Mexican outlet Telediario.
He also appeared obsessed with mass shooters, and left at the scene a bizarre AI-generated framed photo of him standing beside Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the two friends who shot up the Colorado high school on April 20, 1999.
Harris and Klebold killed 13 classmates and one teacher before they each killed themselves.
Ramirez, a Mexican national, appears to have been a member of a dark online subculture known as the True Crime Community, which glorifies school shootings, especially Columbine, according to the outlet.
In the fake image with the Columbine shooters, he wears a shirt with the phrase “Disconnect & Self-Destruct,” which is reportedly associated with the community.
The TCC movement bases much of its aesthetic on the 1999 attackers and multiple mass shootings around the world have been tied to the group.
Ramirez also appears to have been a Nazi sympathizer after police say they found images of Jasso performing the Nazi salute, which he’d been known to do since he was a teenager, Telediario reported.
In Monday’s attack, he started shooting tourists from halfway up the Temple of the Moon — a nearly 2,000-year-old structure and popular tourist attraction that was once used for ritual human sacrifice — just after 11:30 a.m.
Videos of the attack posted on social media show Ramirez, wearing a black mask and carrying a handgun, pacing around the platform as trapped hostages lie face-down on the stone. At one point, he begins shooting at them, the chilling footage shows.
he killed one Canadian woman, police later confirmed.
Witnesses said he was carrying a digital tablet and shouting, although it’s not clear what he was saying.
He appeared to have been shot during a gunfire exchange with federal police before he took his own life, according to Milenio.
Six Americans, three Colombians, one Russian, two Brazilians and one Canadian were taken to the hospital. The youngest person injured was 6 and the oldest was 61, authorities said.
Seven of those injured were shot, officials said. It’s not clear how others were hurt, but tourists could be seen clambering down the pyramid running for their lives in clips posted online once gunfire erupted.
President Claudia Sheinbaum said in a post on social media: “What happened today in Teotihuacan pains us deeply. I express my deepest sympathy to those affected and their families.”
She promised the shooting would be “thoroughly investigated.”
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