“This shooting was racially motivated and he hated Black people,” Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said at a news conference on Saturday.
All three victims of the shooting were black, two men and one woman, Sputnik reported.
The shooting happened blocks away from Edward Waters University, a historically black college, where students living on campus were told to stay in their residence halls.
Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan also called the shooting a hate crime.
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