Massachusetts Police Investigates Shooting of Two Black People as Hate Crime

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After uncovering “troubling white supremacist terminology” in the suspect’s handwriting, authorities are investigating the deadly shooting of two Black individuals in Winthrop, Massachusetts, on Saturday as a hate crime.

According to ABC News, the suspected gunman, Nathan Allen, 28, reportedly drove a stolen box truck into an unoccupied residence before fatally shooting David L. Green and Ramona Cooper, both Black.

Officials arriving on scene discovered Cooper shot half a block from the collision site, according to Winthrop Police Chief Terence Delehanty. According to The New York Times, Green attempted to stop Allen and “engaged with the suspect” in an alleyway near the collision before Allen shot him as well.

Allen was shot and killed by a police officer on the scene. One cop was shot, although he was not seriously hurt.

Green, a former state trooper from Massachusetts, was shot four times in the head and three times in the body. Cooper, an Air Force veteran, was shot in the back three times. Cooper was confirmed dead at a hospital after Green died on the scene.

During a news conference, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins claimed Allen had “troubling white supremacist rhetoric found in [his] own handwriting,” as well as “anti-Semitic and racist remarks against Black persons.”

According to Rollins, following the collision, Allen went by numerous other non-Black persons.

“They were not harmed,” Rollins said. “They are alive and these two visible people of color are not.”

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