gallon gallion, and aj laguerre. and there was nothing legally to keep him from buying the guns. even though in 2017 he was sent for a 72 hour mental health evaluation under the baker act and then released according to authorities. i don t know legally given the way the laws are written right now in the state of florida that there was anything that could have been done. and therein lies the frustration for me. reporter: community representatives are demanding broader action to address racism and hate crimes. it is unjust that we can t even walk on the sidewalks, we re not safe in any stores. reporter: a federal hate crimes probe has already been launched. officials say detectives have spoken to the shooter s parents and that he lived with his parents in a town about 30 minutes away from jacksonville. we knocked on the door of the parents home to try to get them to speak to us. a woman on the other side of the front door said no comment.
reporter: angela carr, jerrald gallion, and aj laguerre were shot and killed saturday after a gunman old fire at a dollar general store. pretty sad what happened it is really sad. the fbi identifying this as a hate crime. he hates a group of people and decided he wanted to kill them. reporter: the gunman was a 21-year-old identified and penned writings detailing what he thought about the black race and what he planned to do. today florida s governor calling the violence unacceptable targeting people due to their race has no place in the state of florida. reporter: authorities released these short clips. at the dollar general store here he is seen wearing a tactical vest armed with two guns one of them hand drawn with swastikas. my lord
Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at prayer vigils and in church, in frustration and exhaustion, to mourn yet another racist attack in America: this one the killing of three Black
. angela michelle carr, 52, aj laguerre, jr., 19 and jerrald shawn gallion, 29 years old. reporter: before the gunman opened fire he showed up in the parking lot of a historically black university nearby and was turned away by security for refusing to identify himself. our campus security officer did confront the perpetrator and the perpetrator immediately got in his vehicle and started to drive away. reporter: minutes later the gunman arrived at the dollar general. deputies released this edited surveillance video showing the shooter opening fire on the first victim in her car in the parking lot. the edited clip then shows the gunman entering the store where
all of the victims were black. the gunman texted his father nutes before the shooting, directing him to his bedroom where he left a will and racist writings, according to law enforcement officials. the manifesto is quite frankly, the diary of a madman. reporter: click on man had no criminal record. but in 2017, at age 50 and come authorities held him for an involuntary psychiatric evaluation. minutes before the shooting, students at nearby edward waters university, historically black college, like the on campus security officer lieutenant what did they tell you? they stated that they seen an individual that was putting on what appeared to be a tactical vest, would appear to be gloves, masks, hat, and that we needed to. reporter: the three victims are 52-year-old angela carr, 19-year-old aj laguerre, and 29-year-old jarrald gallion, who had a 4-year-old daughter.