Authorities identified the shooter as Ryan Palmeter, who they said worked at a Dollar Tree from October 2021 to July 2022.
had stopped taking psychiatric medication and stayed in his room after dropping out of college and losing his job. Other records show the 21-year-old had encounters with police as a teenager, including one involving a suicide threat that led to an involuntary psychiatric evaluation.shows him walking in and leaving a few minutes later with a small shopping bag. But after he reached his car, Waters said, a security guard pulled into the lot and the shooter left.
Jacksonville is home to nearly 1 million people, one third of whom are Black. The city elected its first Black mayor in 2011. Waters has said a journal Palmeter’s father found in his room was "the diary of a madman" that made it clear he hated Black people. During the nearly 10-minute phone call, Stephen Palmeter told the dispatcher that his son had stopped taking his psychiatric medication and rarely left his room since dropping out of a local college.
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