Winthrop Shooting Raises Questions About Tracking â And Stopping â A Lone Wolf
Skye Thomson places flowers on a fence outside a building in Winthrop, Mass., on Monday, June 28, 2021, where an armed man crashed a hijacked truck, Saturday, June 26, 2021, then fatally shot two people before being killed by police.
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The Suffolk County District Attorneyâs office is still combing through the racist and anti-Semitic writings of a Winthrop man for clues as to why he carried out a murderous rampage that began in a stolen truck and ended in a gun battle with police, in which he was shot and killed. Before it was all over, Nathan Allen gunned down two Black residents in what authorities believe was a hate crime.