reporter: he left and went to a second dollar store, there he got out of his car and shot and killed a woman in her car before going inside the store where he killed two others. i heard pop, pop. i turn around and seen him drop. reporter: officers stormed the dollar general store looking for the suspect. you can see them advisably reacting when they hear a shot fired. authorities believe that that is when the gunman killed himself. authorities revealing monday that the shooter previously worked at a dollar tree store. writing left behind show he wanted to kill black people the sheriff says. manifesto is quite frankly the diary of a madman. reporter: the three victims august black, angela carr, an uber driver, jerrald gallion with a 4-year-old daughter and aj laguerre jr. who worked at the store. officials say there was nothing in the gunman s past to prevent him from legally buying these two guns, handgun and ar-15 style rifle emblazoned with swastikas. even knothough in 2017
University and apparently parked in a lot, gets a bag out of the hatch and then puts on a vest and then a security officer responding to a student s tip approaches. the suspect speeds off jumping the curb and almost hitting a column as he was chased off. i did see what appeared to be a tactical vest, a mask along with a hat. reporter: he left and went to a second dollar store, there he got out of his car and shot and killed a woman in her car before going inside the store where he killed two others. i heard pop, pop. i turn around and seen him drop. reporter: officers stormed the dollar general store looking for the suspect. you can see them advisably reacting when they hear a shot fired. authorities believe that is when the gunman killed position. authorities revealing that the shooter previously work at a dollar tree store. writings show that he wanted to kill black people. the manifesto is quite frankly the diary of a madman. reporter: the three victims all black, angela
Toward skipping the next one, then might start doing some. they haven t committed one way or another. great point how that could change the directory of the race. former aide to house speakers boehner and ryan, brendan buck, thank you. and thank you to you for getting up way too early on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. the manifesto was, quite frankly, the diary of a madman. he was just completely irrational. but was it irrational thoughts? he knew what he was doing. he was 100% lucid. he knew what he was doing. again, it s disappointing that anyone would go to these lengths to hurt someone else. his sickening ideology is not representative of the values of this jacksonville community that we all love so much. we are not a community of hate. we stand united with a good and decent people of this city. we reject this inexcusable
The national weather service says these are some of the worst fire conditions that louisiana has experienced in decades but fortunately no injuries have been reported so far. federal authorities have opened a civil rights investigation into saturday s racially motivated mass shooting. a 21-year-old fired outside of a dollar general store in jacksonville on saturday. they say he used racial slurs and drew swastikas on his ar-15 rifle and left behind multiple racist screens. we re doing so much to determine what exactly led to this, the manifesto is, quite frankly, the diary of a madman. he was i mean had was just completely irrational. but was it rational thoughts? he knew what he was doing, he was 100% lucid. he knew what he was doing.
He shot the second and third victims. shortly after investigators say the gunman texted his dad. the suspect text his father and says, use a screwdriver to get into my room. the father enters the room and finds a last will and testament of the suspect along with a suicide note on his laptop. reporter: 11 minutes after the shooter started officers entered the store and heard a gunshot presumably when the gunman shot and killed himself. investigators are combing through his writings. the manifesto is quite frankly the diary of a madman. he was just completely irrational, but he knew what he was doing. reporter: he lived with his parents and had no criminal arrest history. he legally purchased and owned the two guns used in the mass shooting. the justice department is now taking part in the investigation calling it a hate crime and an act of racially motivated