A white man fatally shot 3 Black people at a Florida store in hate crime
Associated Press
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A masked white man fatally shot three people inside a Jacksonville, Florida, Dollar General store in a predominately Black neighborhood on Saturday in an attack after leaving behind racist writings, officials said. The shooter then killed himself.
“He hated Black people,” Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters told a news conference. “There is absolutely no evidence the shooter is part of any larger group.”
Waters said the shooter, who was in his 20s, used a Glock handgun and an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle with at least one of the firearms painted with a swastika. He was wearing a bullet-resistant vest.
Officials didn’t immediately release the names of the victims or the shooter.
John Raoux, Associated Press
Residents gather for a prayer Saturday near the scene of a shooting at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Fla.
The sheriff said the gunman had left behind writings that led investigators to believe that he committed the shooting because it was the fifth anniversary of when another gunman opened fire during a video game tournament in Jacksonville, killing two people before fatally shooting himself.
The shooting happened just before 2 p.m. at a Dollar General about three-quarters of a mile from Edward Waters University, a small historically Black university. Sheriff Waters said the suspect was seen on campus shortly before the shooting, putting on his vest and mask.
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