Video shows Jacksonville gunman Ryan Palmeter launching shooting at Dollar General

Police in Jacksonville, Florida have launched the chilling footage that shows the gunman who carried out a mass shooting at a Dollar General retailer getting into the constructing and opening hearth.

The video, captured on CCTV cameras, shows the suspect armed with an AR-15-style rifle standing exterior of the shop the place he aimed his firearm at the windshield of a automobile and commenced firing rounds.

Police mentioned the gunman, later recognized by police as 21-year-old Ryan Christopher Palmeter, shot and killed one particular person exterior of the Dollar General.

From there, cameras from inside the shop confirmed the gunman strolling in carrying a tactical vest, a face overlaying, a hat, ear safety and gloves.

He could be seen pointing his firearm within the path of individuals the place he later killed two different individuals. All three victims, Angela Michelle Carr, Anolt Joseph Laguerre Jr and Jerrald De’Shaun Gallion, had been Black.

The gunman is believed to have died by suicide.

Authorities mentioned they consider the shooter carried out a racially-motivated shooting the place he specifically targeted Black people. They had been capable of decide this primarily based on a number of manifestos that the gunman left behind.

“I do know for a proven fact that he didn’t like Black individuals,” sheriff TK Waters of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned in a press convention. “He made that very clear.”

Authorities mentioned the gunman left behind a notice and final will and testomony for his mother and father along with the writings, meant for the media and federal brokers, relating to his hateful ideology.

Mr Waters referred to as the writings “sickening” and “the diary of a madman” saying lots of his ideas had been “fully irrational” although clearly achieved with intention.

“He knew what he was doing. He was 100 per cent lucid,” Mr Waters mentioned. “He knew what he was doing and once more, it’s disappointing that anybody would go to those lengths to harm another person.”

The shooter didn’t have a felony report however was held involuntarily in a 72-hour psychiatric analysis in 2017 after a home dispute involving him and his brother – although this didn’t present up on his background test when he obtained his firearms legally below the Baker Act.

In pictures of the firearms that the gunman used to kill the three individuals, one gun has swastikas drawn on it.