A masked white man carrying at least one weapon bearing a swastika fatally shot three Black people inside a Florida store Saturday in an attack with a clear motive of racial hatred, officials said.
"He hated Black people," the sheriff said.
The gunman, who was in his 20s, wore a bullet-resistant vest and used a Glock handgun and an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. He acted alone and there was no evidence he was part of a group, Waters said. The university said in a statement that a security officer had seen the man near the school's library and asked for identification. When he refused, he was asked to leave and returned to his car. He was spotted putting on the bullet-resistant vest and a mask before leaving the grounds, although it was not known whether he had planned an attack at the university, Waters said.
McKissick, who is a Baptist bishop and senior pastor of the historic Bethel Church in Jacksonville, said the shooting took place in the New Town neighbourhood, which now needs love and affirmation. "Nobody is having honest, candid conversations about the presence of racism," said McKissick, a Baptist bishop and senior pastor of the Bethel Church in Jacksonville.
The attack at a store in a predominantly Black neighbourhood recalls past shootings targeting Black Americans, including at a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket in 2022 and a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015. Jacksonville native Marsha Dean Phelts was in Washington with others at the King commemoration and said learning of the shooting was"a death blow."
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