Jacksonville shooter, 21, who killed three 'wrote racist manifestos'

A man who shot dead three people in a racially motivated attack in Florida wrote of his hatred of Black people, police have said.

Twenty-one year old Ryan Christopher Palmeter fired eleven rounds at one woman sitting in her car in Jacksonville, before entering a shop and shooting another two people.

Sheriff T K Waters said he then turned the gun on himself.

Mayor Donna Deegan said it was a "hate-filled crime" driven by racist hatred. read more