08/29/2023

Florida Gunman Thwarted at College Before Shooting

This happened before he killed three at a discount store

A campus police officer chased a white gunman off Florida's first historically Black university a few minutes before the shooter killed three Black people at a discount store, the school's president said Monday, two days after the attack.

The domestic terrorist, Ryan Christopher Palmeter, 21, parked his car on the Edward Waters University campus in Jacksonville and was putting on gloves and a military-style vest when students spotted him. They summoned the officer, President A. Zachary Faison, Jr. told reporters, providing new details about what occurred.

Palmeter then sped off, pursued by the officer, and headed to a Dollar General store in Jacksonville. He carried out what authorities have said was a shooting motivated by racial hatred about 10 minutes later.

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