Florida gunman kills three black people in racially motivated killing: Report

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AFP. In a press conference, Jacksonville Sheriff TK Waters 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." The sheriff's office stated that the shooter has not been identified yet. He entered the Dollar General store wearing a tactical vest, armed with an AR-style rifle and a handgun, it added. 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, AFP reported.

The shooting took place near Edward Waters University, a historically Black college in the southern US state. The FBI would investigate the shooting as a hate crime, said Sherri Onks, the bureau's special agent for Jacksonville. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis decried the "horrific" shooting and called the gunman a “scumbag." "He was targeting people based on their race, that is totally unacceptable.

This guy killed himself rather than face the music and accept responsibility for his actions and so he took the coward's way out," said DeSantis, who is competing to be the Republican party's candidate for the 2024 White House race. The shooting was the latest in a spate of gun violence this weekend in the United States. Mass shootings have become disturbingly common across the United States, with easy access to firearms in most states and more guns in the country than citizens.

Earlier in the day, at least seven people were hospitalized after a mass shooting at a Caribbean festival in the northeast city of Boston, police said. In addition, two women were shot at a baseball game in Chicago the night before, as per AFP reports. Local police