moments out speak with the sheriff on the investigation as well as the hero security guard who chased down the gunman. first, new video show a white gunman made a stop at edward waters university. and, a family dollar both before going to the dollar general, and an ar-15 rifle and a hand guard, that s where he killed three black people. today 52 year old angela michelle carr, 19-year-old anolt joseph laguerre jr., and 29 year old jerrald gallion. i want to bring in now jacksonville sheriff sheriff t. k. waters. sheriff waters, thank you very much for being here. i know how difficult at the time this is for your community. we appreciate it. thank you for having me i, appreciate it. we were just discussing these videos that s really start to paint a picture of what was going on with the
we did try to make contact with the suspect. he was inside the vehicle at that time. did you ever see him outside the vehicle at all? did you ever have any communication with him at all? i did not see him outside the vehicle. he was inside the vehicle at the time that we were alerted. was it clear to you in that moment that this was someone who is on his way to commit an act of mass violence? at that time we did not know what his intentions were. we just knew that we were alerted he was on campus putting on tactical clothing and gloves. as he was leaving, you all pursued him for sometime. were you alerting the jacksonville sheriff s department at the same time about this person that you saw? at the time that we were behind said suspect, we were just trying to get as much information. we knew he was not supposed to be on the university campus, especially being in tactical
pay for their funerals and their needs. while we learn from sheriff t.k. water, a black man, that the shooter had no criminal history we learned that in 2016 there was a domestic call with no arrests and in 2017 this shooter was baker active, detained for 72 hours during a mental health crisis. isabel rosales, thank you. much of the state of florida including the city of jacksonville bracing for tropical stormstorm. it s in the millions that trump is raising from that mug shot. we ll tell you more when we get back. pleasase don t go please don t gogo.. please don t go please don t go
grappling and try to understand what has happened here. let me paint you a picture of when the shooting happened on saturday, the 60th anniversary of the commemoration of the march on washington, the fifth anniversary of a mass shooting in jacksonville, also something known as ax saturday where in the 1960s a white mob beat black demonstrators. the timing certainly doesn t help, adding to the outrage of this community that an outsider, a white man would come to this predominantly black community and carry out this act of violence. so we just learned on cnn from sheriff t.k. waters, a black man, that for some reason this shooter was, quote, very focused on this dollar general and he carried out his rampage for 11 minutes donning a tactical vest, a mask, an ar-15-style rifle, a handgun with swastikas, fired
police identifying the suspect in saturday s shooting at a florida dollar general that claimed the lives of three innocent people. the department of justice is investigating the shooting as an act of racially motivated violence violent extremism and alexandria hoff joins us live from washington with all the details for us. alexandria. ainsley, the shooter was 21 years old. white, lived at home with his parents and present nod red flags according to jacksonville sheriff. the hate-filled manifesto he left behind was found too late. sheriff t.k. waters said in that text it was clear that christopher pal meter, he hated black people. that s what he wrote down. detailing his deadly motivations in those writings left at his family s home in the jacksonville subonce. the manifesto is, quite frankly, the diary of a mad man he was i he was completely