Girlfriend: Shooting suspect feared Asian Americans

DALLAS » The girlfriend of a man arrested in Dallas Tuesday in a shooting that wounded three women in a Koreatown hair salon told police he had been admitted to health facilities because he was having delusions about Asian Americans, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

Jeremy Theron Smith, 37, faces three charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to jail records.

Police Sr. Cpl. Soo Nam also addressed the reporters, delivering a statement on the arrest in Korean. Garcia said the department has 10 officers who speak Korean.

The FBI said Tuesday that it has opened a federal hate crime investigation along with federal prosecutors in Texas and the U.S. Department of Justice’s civil rights division.

Smith, who is Black, is jailed and no bond has been set. Jail records do not list an attorney for him.