Searchers in decades our correspondent takes the plunge announcer: this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. good evening the true horror of what happened saturday in jacksonville, florida is coming into sharper focus tonight. there is a prayer vigil under way as we come on the air. the community coming together, struggling to make any sense of what the sheriff called a shooting motivated by racial hatred we learned the names today of the three lives lost and police now say the suspect first went to an historically black university but left after encountering campus security and then moved on to a dollar general store. president biden saying in a statement today we must refuse to live in a country where black families going to the store live in fear of being gunned down because of the color of their skin marissa parra is in jacksonville tonight. reporter: in jacksonville tonight a community grieves over lives tragically lost. this is tough this is home.