The X account authorities believe belonged to the gunman who killed three people and wounded more than a dozen at a bar in Austin over the weekend contained a series of antisemitic, anti-Christian, and misogynistic posts stretching back more than a year, law enforcement sources said.
Ndiaga Diagne, 53, was killed by police in a shootout after the rampage early Sunday on Sixth Street.
The account, created in October 2024 with its last post in December 2025, included a reply last April to Iran’s foreign minister that 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.”
Other posts called President Donald Trump “A shameless clown” and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “Evil,” CBS News Texas reported.
One response to a meme asking what men produce declared: “SPERM and have built everything in this world.”
Several disparaged Christianity as “fake” and used vulgar terms for Jesus’ mother, Mary.
Another post read, “Muslims worship THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE GOD.”
A post directed at Laura Loomer read: “you and your Israel first acolytes fake Jews know it, so melt down all you want you ugly [b—-].”
Sources familiar with the investigation said the war with Iran appeared to be a factor in the attack “at least in part.” Diagne was wearing a T-shirt with a design similar to the Iranian flag and a hoodie that said “Property of Allah” when he opened fire. A Quran was found in the SUV he drove.
A search of his apartment turned up an Iranian flag and pictures of Iranian regime leaders.
Diagne, who immigrated from Senegal in 2000 and became a U.S. citizen in 2013, had a history of mental health issues, including one police encounter in which officers responded to a suicidal episode.
In a 2022 divorce case, a Texas judge found he had a “history or pattern of committing family violence” and ordered supervised visits with the couple’s two young children.
Diagne wrote in a handwritten response that he “totally disagree and quite frankly feel insulted by the many false statements in the filing.” He was arrested four times between 2001 and 2016, including once for illegally selling sunglasses, and was sued after severely injuring a woman in a New York vehicle crash.
Investigators are examining multiple possible motives, including mental health and potential terrorism links, and have not reached a conclusion. Retired FBI Dallas Special Agent in Charge Eric Jackson urged caution.
“Probably the biggest thing for not only investigators, but also leadership of the local state and federal agencies to do is not to jump to a conclusion, not to draw a conclusion by single items that you see,” Jackson said, NBC 5 DFW reported.
