It has come to light that the shooter who killed three people in a racially motivated shooting at a Dollar General in Jacksonville, Florida, may have originally intended to target a different shop.
At roughly 12:23 on Saturday, the gunman can be seen in surveillance footage entering a Family Dollar shop.
He momentarily entered while wearing a mask, held the door open for Black customers entering and going, and then left without attacking.
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The shooter, identified as 21-year-old Ryan Palmeter, then went to Edwards Waters University but was turned away by a security guard, Jacksonville Sheriff TK Waters told reporters in a press conference.
Then, after travelling about a mile from the first store, he went to the Dollar General store, where he shot and killed three people: 52-year-old Angela Michelle Carr, 19-year-old Anolt Joseph “AJ” Laguerre Jr., and 29-year-old Jarrald De’Shaun Gallion.
Ron DeSantis, the governor of the state where he has relaxed gun rules, has come under scrutiny as more information about the massacre comes to light.
At a vigil on Sunday, the audience heckled Mr. DeSantis, causing him to withdraw from the podium.
According to The Daily Beast, Fox News anchor John Roberts on Monday raised the topic of why a white supremacist would still carry out a racially motivated mass killing at a dollar store in Jacksonville, Florida, if Joe Biden had promised to unite Americans.
In an interview with network contributor Leo Terrell, Roberts stated, “He swore to unite the country back in his inauguration speech, countless times prior and after that, and yet awful things like what happened over the weekend still happen. Where is this nation right now?”
