A masked white man fatally shot three Black people inside a Jacksonville, Florida, Dollar General- about 35 miles south of the Georgia border- in a predominately African-American neighborhood on Saturday, in an attack where he used a gun painted with a swastika, officials said.
The shooter, who had also posted racist writings, then killed himself.
Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters told a news conference that the attack that left two men and one woman dead was definitely “racially motivated.”
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