A white man has shot dead three Black people in a racially motivated attack in Jacksonville, Florida, before taking his own life, authorities said.
“He targeted a certain group of people and that’s Black people. That’s what he said he wanted to kill. And that’s very clear,” Jacksonville Sheriff TK Waters told a news conference about the gunman, who has been described as white and in his early 20s.
According to the sheriff’s office, the attacker, who has not yet been identified, entered a Dollar General store wearing a tactical vest, armed with an AR-style rifle and a handgun.
Manifestos discovered by the gunman’s family shortly before the attack “detail the shooter’s disgusting ideology of hate”, Waters said, and at least one of the guns had hand-drawn swastikas on it. Al Jazeera could not get the details of the manifesto.
The shooting took place near Edward Waters University, a historically Black college in the southern US state.
The university said in a statement that the attacker had been on campus earlier that day, though no one was harmed.
Source: Aljazeera
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