Racist gunman kills three black folks in Florida store
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racist gunman arrying a minimum of one weapon bearing a swastika fatally shot three Black folks inside a Florida retailer Saturday in an assault with a transparent motive of racial hatred, officers stated.
The capturing in a Dollar General retailer in a predominately African-American neighborhood left two males and one girl lifeless and was “racially motivated,” Jacksonville Sheriff TK Waters stated.
The capturing occurred simply earlier than 2 p.m. inside a mile of Edward Waters University, a small, traditionally Black college.
In addition to carrying a firearm with a painted image of the genocidal Nazi regime of Germany of the Thirties and Forties, the shooter issued racist statements earlier than the capturing. He killed himself on the scene.
The shooter has not but been named however the FBI has opened a civil rights investigation into the capturing, which it’s treating as a hate crime.
Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan informed native TV channel WJXT: “One shooting is too much but these mass shootings are really hard to take.”
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stated: “He [the gunman] was targeting people based on their race, that is totally unacceptable,” stated Mr DeSantis, who’s competing to be the Republican celebration’s presidential candidate.
“This guy killed himself rather than face the music and accept responsibility for his actions and so he took the coward’s way out.”
The White House stated President Joe Biden had been briefed on the capturing.