The gunman who killed three people Saturday at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, in what authorities said was a racist attack against Black people had earlier been turned away from the campus of a nearby historically Black university.
"He hated Black people," said Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters, who told a news conference that the attack that left two men and one woman dead was definitely "racially motivated."The white gunman who killed three Black people in a racist attack at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday legally purchased two firearms earlier this year, Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said in a news conference Sunday.
Jim Acosta. Armed with an AR-15 style rifle and a handgun, the gunman opened fire outside the store and then again inside, fatally shooting the three victims before killing himself, according to Waters.Police identified them Sunday as 52-year-old Angela Michelle Carr, 19-year-old Anolt Joseph Laguerre Jr. and 29-year-old Jerrald De'Shaun Gallion.
The FBI has launched a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting and "will pursue this incident as a hate crime," said Sherri Onks, special agent in charge of the FBI's Jacksonville office. Officers responded to the scene as the gunman was exiting the building. The gunman saw the officers, retreated into an office inside the building and shot himself, Waters said.
"The suspect's family, they didn't do this. They're not responsible for this. This is his decision, his decision alone," the sheriff later told CNN.The shooter was the subject of a 2017 law enforcement call under the state's Baker Act, which allows people to be involuntarily detained and subject to an examination for up to 72 hours during a mental health crisis.
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