A white man shot and killed two men and one woman – all three victims were Black – before fatally shooting himself yesterday
Joe Biden declared on Sunday that “white supremacy has no place in America” after three people were killed in a racist shooting in Florida and it emerged that the gunman had been turned away from a historically Black college or university campus moments before opening fire at a discount store., on Sunday called the gunman in the attack a “hateful lunatic” and said “we will not allow HBCUs to be targeted”.
The photograph of Ryan Christopher Palmeter, 21, is shown at a news conference after being identified by Sheriff TK Waters as the white man who killed three Black people before shooting himself at a Dollar General store on Saturday.“Hate crimes are always and will always remain a top priority for the FBI because they are not only an attack on a victim, they’re also meant to threaten and intimidate an entire community,” Onks said.
Because Palmeter was released after his mental health examination, it would not have appeared on his background check. “He had an opportunity to do violence at [Edward Waters] and did not. There were people in very close proximity,” the Associated Press reports Waters saying.it would hold a prayer vigil on Sunday evening for the college community “particularly our students, faculty, staff, alumni, and all those impacted by yesterday’s heinous act of racial violence”.
He added of Saturday: “But this day of remembrance and commemoration ended with yet another American community wounded by an act of gun violence, reportedly fueled by hate-filled animus and carried out with two firearms.”
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