The three black people killed by a white gunman in what authorities said was a racially motivated hate crime at a Dollar General store in Florida were identified Sunday, including a 19-year-old clerk who was shot and killed while trying to escape. .
Teenage store worker AJ Laguerre has been named as one of the victims fatally shot by racist “maniac” Ryan Palmer, 21, who attacked the Jacksonville store shortly after 1 p.m. Saturday afternoon. , armed with a Glock pistol and a gun-adorned AR-15-style rifle. swastikas, authorities said.
Angela Michelle Carr, 52, was shot to death in a hail of 11 bullets as she sat in her car in the parking lot outside the store, and Jerrald Gallion, 29, was killed as he entered the store along with his girlfriend, Sheriff TK Waters said. .
Many other people in the store managed to flee unharmed out the back door as Palmer gave chase and fired shots, the sheriff said.
Jerrald Gallion, 29, was shot and killed as he entered the Dollar General in Jacksonville on Saturday.
Waters said Palmer allowed a few people to leave the store at one point, some of whom were white, but authorities were still investigating that part of the shooting.
Palmer, who shot himself moments after authorities arrived, acted alone in his racist attack, authorities said.
“There is absolutely no evidence that the shooter is part of a larger group,” Waters told reporters.
Angela Michelle Carr was shot to death in her car in the store’s parking lot. Facebook
“Frankly, this was a maniac who decided he wanted to take lives,” the sheriff said. “He targeted a certain group of people, and those are the blacks, that’s what he said he wanted to kill. And that is very clear.”
Palmerer left a suicide note and several racist rants on the computer at his parents’ home in Clay County, where he lived, authorities said.
“The manifesto is, frankly, the diary of a madman,” Waters said. “It was completely irrational. But with irrational thoughts, he knew what he was doing. He was 100% lucid”.
“This shooting was racially motivated and I hated black people,” Waters said. “I wanted to kill an——”.
Ryan Palmerer, 21, entered the store firing an assault rifle just before 2 p.m. Saturday.
The guns used by Palmerer were purchased legally in April and June, despite being involuntarily committed to an institution for mental health reasons in 2017, but released after examination.
Sheriff Waters noted that the guns were purchased completely legally and that the stores had followed all procedures correctly.
Palmer legally purchased the weapons he used in the attack months ago via REUTERS
Palmerer’s parents also called police over a domestic dispute between him and a brother in 2016, but no one was arrested, police said.
Just before the shooting, Palmerer was seen near the historically black Edward Waters University, but left after being confronted by security guards.
Witnesses said Palmerer was seen donning a mask, tactical vest and gloves before leaving the school, and police said he posted a TikTok video while in the parking lot showing him donning tactical gear.
It is not clear if he initially intended to carry out the attack at the school. Waters noted that he had multiple opportunities to harm those close to him, but he didn’t.
Palmer murdered one of his victims while they were sitting in their car in the parking lot outside the Dollar General on Saturday.
“Any member of that race at that time was in danger … from the black race,” Waters said.
About twenty minutes after the shooting began when police entered the building, Waters said Palmer locked herself in the store’s office and texted her father telling him to go into her bedroom and check her computer for of the manifestos.
The family notified the police, but by then Palmer was already at the Dollar General.
FBI investigators are treating the shooting as a hate crime.
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