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Family, friends mourn 2 victims of potential hate crime
By PHILIP MARCELOJune 28, 2021 GMT
BOSTON (AP) One was a respected state trooper, the other a beloved Air Force vet.
Family and friends on Monday mourned David Green and Ramona Cooper, the two bystanders killed Saturday afternoon by a white gunman in a Boston suburb in an attack officials are treating as a hate crime.
Authorities, meanwhile, said they’re investigating when and how the gunman a 28-year-old man whose wedding plans amid the coronavirus pandemic were glowingly profiled in the local paper last summer became radicalized.
Prosecutors say Nathan Allen drew swastikas and wrote messages about whites being superior in the weeks leading up to the shootings. He was killed by police moments after shooting the victims, who were African American.
Online, He Was a Romantic. Then He Went on a Racist Rampage. Michael Daly © Provided by The Daily Beast Suffolk County District Attorney/Handout
Investigators concluded that the surveillance video of 28-year-old Nathan Allen clutching a semi-automatic pistol on a Winthrop, Massachusetts, street on Saturday afternoon is an image of murderous racism in action.
They noted that Allen walked gun in hand past several white people without firing before he shot to death a Black Air Force veteran and then a Black retired Massachusetts state trooper.
And the investigators later discovered white supremacist and anti-semitic rantings in Allen’s handwriting, complete with swastikas.