Authorities said a gunman opened fire at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Fla., on Saturday afternoon, killing three people and then taking his own life.
The shooter, whose name has not yet been released, was arrested by Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. explained. Waters is a Caucasian man in his early twenties who left a "manifesto".
"Frankly, this shooting was racially motivated and he hated black people," Waters said at a press conference Saturday night, adding that the underlying hatred in the text "made me even more saddened by this tragedy." are added,” he added. Two men and one woman were not identified, but Waters confirmed they were all black. No other injuries were reported in the shooting.
Waters said the shooter is believed to have
resided in Clay County and drove about 40 miles north to Jacksonville on Saturday.
The perpetrators attempted to drive through the nearby historically black college, Edward Waters College, before approaching the Dollar General. Campus security confronted the shooter and took him off campus, said A. Zachary Faison, Jr., the school's president.
Edward Waters and several other black colleges received anonymous bomb threats on the first day of last year's Black History Month.
"It's no coincidence. We know these are targeted attacks," Faison said. The attacker wore a tactical vest and attacked the store with an assault rifle and handgun. Photos of the gun shared at the press conference showed a swastika on one side of the rifle.
According to Waters, the shooter texted his father before the shooting and shared the location of three manifesto documents: one to his parents, one to the media, and a third to federal officials. to). About 30 minutes later, the family called the local sheriff's office, by which time the attack had already begun.
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