Flowers are seen near where a gunman killed two people after crashing a stolen truck on Saturday in Winthrop. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Family members and friends are mourning the two longtime public servants who were killed by a gunman in Winthrop on Saturday.
Police say Nathan Allen, 28, of Winthrop, rammed a building in a stolen truck, then fatally shot David Green, a retired state police trooper, and Ramona Cooper, an Air Force veteran, before police killed him.
Green, 58, who grew up in Winthrop, spent 36 years in law enforcement. My brother had a unique ability I think it was unique he was able to talk to people, said Green s brother, Ray Green.
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.
Two victims of potential hate crime mourned in Massachusetts
A neighbor places a bouquet of flowers Sunday on a fence outside of a building in Winthrop, Mass., where an armed man crashed a hijacked truck on Saturday, then fatally shot two bystanders before being killed by police. Jessica Rinaldi / The Boston Globe via AP
In this Saturday, June 26, 2021 photo, authorities work at the scene where a stolen truck collided with another vehicle and crashed into a building before a suspect fatally shot two people in Winthrop, Mass. (Paul Connors/Media News Group/Boston Herald via AP) Paul Connors
In this Saturday, June 26, 2021 photo, authorities work at the scene where a stolen truck collided with another vehicle and crashed into a building before a suspect fatally shot two people in Winthrop, Mass. (Paul Connors/Media News Group/Boston Herald via AP) Paul Connors
Updated: Jun 28 2021, 21:03 ET
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THE gunman suspected of shooting two Black bystanders in Massachusetts was found to have allegedly made racist and anti-Semitic statements in his past, including drawing swastikas.
The Suffolk County District Attorney s Office identified the 28-year-old gunman as Nathan Allen, who was shot and killed by Winthrop Police following their standoff on Saturday.
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Allen is alleged to have killed retired Massachusetts State Trooper David Green, 58Credit: AP
However, new details have emerged about Allen, a suspected white supremacist authorities say he purposely crashed into a building and killed two Black inhabitants in an alleged hate crime.