WASHINGTON, D.C.: A white man driven by racial hatred shot dead three Black people in a Florida discount store Saturday before taking his own life after a standoff with police, authorities said. "He targeted a certain group of people and that's Black people. And that's very clear," Jacksonville Sheriff TK Waters told a news conference about the gunman, who was in his early 20s. The shooting took place near Edward Waters University, a historically Black college in the southern US state. "An on-campus Edward Waters University security officer engaged an unidentified male in the vicinity of the Centennial Library on campus," it said.

Source: Manila Times August 27, 2023 04:25 UTC