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   JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at prayer   
   vigils and in church, in frustration and exhaustion, to mourn yet another   
   racist attack in America: this one the killing of three Black people in   
   Florida at the hands of a white, 21-year-old man who authorities say left   
   behind white supremacist ramblings that read like “the diary of a madman.”   
      
   Following services earlier in the day, about 200 people showed up at a   
   Sunday evening vigil a block from the Dollar General store in Jacksonville   
   where officials said Ryan Palmeter opened fire Saturday using guns he   
   bought legally despite a past involuntary commitment for a mental health   
   exam.   
      
   Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis — who is running for the GOP nomination for   
   president, who has loosened gun laws in Florida and who has antagonized   
   civil rights leaders by deriding “wokeness " — was loudly booed as he   
   addressed the vigil.   
      
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   Ju’Coby Pittman, a Jacksonville city councilwoman who represents the   
   neighborhood where the shooting happened, stepped in to ask the crowd to   
   listen.   
      
   “It ain’t about parties today,” she said. “A bullet don’t know a party.”   
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   This undated selfie taken and provided by Sabrina Rozier shows Rozier,   
   left, and Jerrald Gallion. Gallion was killed, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023,   
   when a 21-year-old white man opened fire at Black shoppers at a store in   
   Florida with guns he bought legally despite once being involuntarily   
   committed for a mental health exam. (Sabrina Rozier via AP)   
   Florida shooting victim planned to spend Saturday with his daughter. He   
   was killed before he could.   
   Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, center and his wife Casey, right, bow their   
   heads during a prayer at a vigil for the victims of Saturday's mass   
   shooting Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023, in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/John   
   Raoux)   
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   storm and shooting aftermath   
      
   DeSantis said that on Monday the state would be announcing financial   
   support for security at Edward Waters University, the historically black   
   college near where the shooting occurred, and to help the affected   
   families. He called the gunman a “major league scumbag.”   
      
   “What he did is totally unacceptable in the state of Florida,” DeSantis   
   said. “We are not going to let people be targeted based on their race.”   
      
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   Sheriff T.K. Waters identified those killed as Angela Michelle Carr, 52,   
   who was shot in her car; store employee A.J. Laguerre, 19, who was shot as   
   he tried to flee; and customer Jerrald Gallion, 29, who was shot as he   
   entered the store in a predominantly Black neighborhood.   
      
   Gallion attended St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Jacksonville,   
   Bishop John Guns told the crowd. He was the 33rd murder victim in the 27   
   years Guns has been there, he said.   
   Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, center and his wife Casey, right, bow their   
   heads during a prayer at a vigil for the victims of Saturday's mass   
   shooting Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023, in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/John   
   Raoux)   
      
   Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, center and his wife Casey, right, bow their   
   heads during a prayer at a vigil for the victims of Saturday’s mass   
   shooting Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023, in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/John   
   Raoux)   
      
   “In two weeks I have to preach a funeral of a man who should still be   
   alive,” Guns said. “He was not a gangster, he was not a thug — he was a   
   father who gave his life to Jesus and was trying to get it together.   
      
   “I wept in church today like a baby because my heart is tired. We are   
   exhausted.”   
      
      
      
   The latest in a long history of American racist killings unfolded early   
   Saturday afternoon after Palmeter first parked at Edward Waters   
   University.   
      
   The sheriff said a video posted on TikTok with no timestamp showed   
   Palmeter donning a bullet-resistant vest. A university security guard   
   spotted Palmeter and parked near him. Palmeter drove off and the security   
   guard flagged down a Jacksonville sheriff’s officer who was about to send   
   out an alert to other officers when the shooting began at the store.   
      
   Palmeter used an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and a Glock handgun in the   
   shooting, Waters said. He had legally purchased the guns in recent months   
   even though he had been involuntarily committed for a mental health   
   examination in 2017. Because Palmeter was released after the examination,   
   that would have not shown up on his background checks.   
      
   Palmeter killed himself as police arrived, about 11 minutes after the   
   shooting began.   
      
   Palmeter lived with his parents in neighboring Clay County. He texted his   
   father during the shooting and told him to break into his room, Waters   
   said. The father then found a suicide note, a will and the racist writings   
   Waters described as “quite frankly, the diary of a madman.”   
      
      
      
   “He was just completely irrational,” Waters said. “But with irrational   
   thoughts, he knew what he was doing. He was 100% lucid.”   
      
   The sheriff said Palmeter, wearing his vest covered by a shirt, gloves and   
   a mask, first stopped in front of Carr’s vehicle and fired 11 shots with   
   his rifle through her windshield, killing her.   
      
   He entered the store and turned to his right, shooting Laguerre, video   
   shows. Numerous people fled through the back door, the sheriff said. He   
   chased after them and fired, but missed. He went back inside the store and   
   found Gallion entering the front door with his girlfriend. He fatally shot   
   Gallion.   
      
   He then chased a woman through the store and fired, but missed.   
      
   White shooter kills 3 Black people in Florida hate crime   
      
      
   “We must say clearly and forcefully that white supremacy has no place in   
   America,” President Joe Biden said in a statement Sunday. “We must refuse   
   to live in a country where Black families going to the store or Black   
   students going to school live in fear of being gunned down because of the   
   color of their skin.”   
      
   Biden spoke to Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan in the wake of Saturday’s   
   horrific shooting. The president also spoke with Sheriff Waters. In both   
   calls, he offered his full support to the people of Jacksonville,   
   according to a statement Sunday evening from the White House.   
      
   Earlier Sunday, the pastor of St. Paul AME Church near the site of the   
   shooting told congregants to follow Jesus Christ’s example and keep their   
   sadness from turning to rage.   
      
      
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