Ron DeSantis booed at Jacksonville vigil as police say racist Florida shooter bought weapons legally – live

Florida governor Ron DeSantis was heckled by mourners at a vigil held in Jacksonville for the three victims killed in a racially motivated attack.

Two men and a woman were killed on Saturday by a 21-year-old white man named Ryan Palmeter, who “hated Black people”. The victims were identified as Angela Michelle Carr, 52, Anolt Joseph “AJ” Laguerre Jr, 19, and Jarrald De’Shaun Gallion, 29.

As the governor began speaking at the vigil on Sunday, many members of a crowd of over a hundred people booed Mr DeSantis, forcing him to step back from the microphone.

Ju'Coby Pittman, a Jacksonville city councilperson who represents the neighbourhood where the shooting took place, stepped in and asked the crowd to listen.

The shooting took place at a Dollar General store just blocks from the historically-Black Edward Waters University.

Shortly before the gunman went on a killing spree, his parents called law enforcement to say they had found a manifesto. The gunman had reportedly called his parents ahead of the attack and told them to look at his computer.

Sheriff TK Waters described those writings as a “disgusting ideology of hate”.

Key Points

• Gunman and three victims dead after mass shooting at Florida Dollar General store

• Chilling CCTV shows Jacksonville shooter entering store during deadly rampage

• Shooting described as ‘racially-motivated’ attack as investigators review killer’s manifestos

• Florida governor Ron DeSantis heckled at vigil for victims

• Shooter had authored manifestos before going on a killing rampage

Police reveal new information about the gunman

15:00 , Ariana Baio

Jacksonville County sheriff TK Waters revealed in a press conference on Monday evening that detectives have discovered new information about the gunman accused of killing three people in a racially motivated shooting this past weekend.

The gunman, identified as 21-year-old Ryan Palmeter, previously worked at a similar discount store to the one he targeted.

“We have confirmed that the shooter previously worked at a Dollar Tree store from October 2021 through July 2022 in the OakLeaf area,” Mr Waters said.

The information comes as investigators discovered the gunman went to a Family Dollar store before going to a Dollar General.

HBCU president praises students and officer for stopping Jacksonville shooter

14:30 , Ariana Baio

A campus security officer tipped off by observant students likely stopped the killer who fatally shot three people at a nearby Dollar General Store from carrying out his racist attack at Edward Waters University, the president of the historically Black institution said Monday.

Students reported seeing a young, white man, pull into a campus library parking lot in Jacksonville, Florida, and begin putting on tactical gear, EWU president Zachary Faison Jr said. They immediately flagged down a security officer who was on patrol to tell them what they saw.

The officer approached the car on foot when the driver — who would later be identified as the gunman — sped off, hitting a curb and narrowly avoiding a brick column, Mr Faison said. The campus officer, who the campus president called a hero, then called the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and shared the description of the vehicle.

Minutes later, the gunman made his way to a Dollar General Store down the road and killed Angela Michelle Carr, 52, an Uber driver who was shot in her car; store employee AJ Laguerre, 19, who was shot as he tried to flee; and customer Jerrald Gallion, 29, who was shot as he entered the store in the predominantly Black New Town neighborhood.

“It’s not just on a whim that he chose to come to Florida’s first historically Black college or university,” said Mr Faison, who expressed condolences to the families of the victims and confirmed none were part of the university.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

ICYMI: Ron DeSantis is booed by mourners as he attends Jacksonville vigil after racist shooting

14:00 , Ariana Baio

Florida governor Ron DeSantis was heckled at a vigil held for the three victims of a racially motivated mass shooting in Jacksonville.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar reports:

Ron DeSantis booed by mourners as he attends Jacksonville vigil after racist shooting

Watch: Ron DeSantis calls Jacksonville shooter a 'scumbag' after racially motivated attack

13:00 , Ariana Baio

Kamala Harris: The US is experiencing an ‘epidemic of hate'

11:00 , Ariana Baio

Vice President Kamala Harris said the US is experiencing an “epidemic of hate” in response to the shooting in Jacksonville, Florida.

“Let us continue to speak truth about the moment we are in: America is experiencing an epidemic of hate. Too many communities have been torn apart by hatred and violent extremism,” Ms Harris said.

“Too many families have lost children, parents, and grandparents. Too many Black Americans live every day with the fear that they will be victims of hate-fueled gun violence—at school, at work, at their place of worship, at the grocery store. Every person in every community in America should have the freedom to live safe from gun violence. And Congress must help secure that freedom by banning assault weapons and passing other commonsense gun safety legislation,” Harris said in her statement.”

Everything we know about the Florida Dollar General Shooting

10:00 , Ariana Baio

“This is a dark day in Jacksonville’s history. There is no place for hate in this community,” the sheriff said. “I am sickened by this cowardly shooter’s personal ideology.”

Kelly Rissman reports:

Everything we know about the Florida Dollar General Shooting

Victims’ family snub call for Biden

09:00 , Ariana Baio

President Joe Biden told reporters on Monday that he has not contacted the families of the Jacksonville shooting victims yet adding that one family said they did not want Mr Biden to contact them.

The president said he spoke with leaders in Jacksonville and the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, about the shooting and asked if it was appropriate for him to speak to the families of victims.

Mr Biden said he had not reached out to victims’ families just yet, adding that one family declined to speak with him.

“Two of [the families] are prepared to be contacted, one does not want to be contacted,” Mr Biden said.

“I’m just letting things settle because everyone deals with profound loss in a different way and it’s important – know from experience, it’s important to try and do it in a way that is most helpful and eases the anxiety the most so I haven’t spoken to them yet,” he added.

Anolt "AJ" Laguerre Jr, 19, Jerrald De’Shaun Gallion, 29, and Angela Michelle Carr, 52, were all killed in the tragedy after a white gunman opened fire in front and inside of the store with the intention of killing Black people.

Jacksonville killings refocus attention on the city’s racist past and the struggle to move on

07:00 , Ariana Baio

Jacksonville is home to nearly one million people, about a third of them Black, just south of Florida’s border with Georgia. The city is still coming to terms with its Southern heritage while trying to become more cosmopolitan in the shadows of the state’s other major cities: Miami, celebrated for glitzy nightlife and inviting beaches, and Orlando, home to the world-renowned Disney World and Universal theme parks.

In recent years there were signs Jacksonville was changing, and it might still be.

Jacksonville elected its first Black mayor in 2011. A couple years later, there was another watershed moment when a coalition of activists succeeded in persuading the school board, after years of failed attempts, to rename a high school honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general and the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

Since then, the city has continued to sever ties to the racist past by removing a Confederate soldier statue atop a memorial in a park bordering City Hall. The excision was finalized by Jacksonville’s former mayor, a Republican who once served as his party’s statewide chair.

Donald Trump took Duval County in the 2016 presidential election. Two years later, a Black Democratic candidate running for governor, Andrew Gillum, won the county but narrowly lost statewide to now-Gov. Ron Desantis.

“It feels some days like we’re going backward,” Deegan said through tears Sunday while addressing a congregation at St. Paul AME Church, 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) from the site of the shooting.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

ICYMI: Florida shooting latest as police reveal attack was ‘racially motivated’ and gunman ‘hated black people’

05:00 , Ariana Baio

A shooting in Florida that killed three people was “racially motivated” and the shooter “hated black people”, police have confirmed.

Two men and one woman were shot dead in a Dollar General store in Jacksonville by a man in his early 20s.

Jacksonville’s sheriff said the suspect, an unidentified white man in his 20s, “targeted black people” in the shooting before killing himself.

“Plainly put, this shooting was racially motivated and he hated black people,” Sheriff T K Waters said at a news conference.

Sheriff Waters said the gunman used a Glock handgun and an AR-15 style rifle emblazoned with swastikas during his killing spree which occurred shortly before 2pm local time.

Mike Pence offers solution to mass shootings: ‘Expedited death penalty’

03:00 , Ariana Baio

America’s mass shooting crisis, in numbers

01:00 , Ariana Baio

At least 346 mass shootings were recorded within the first six months of 2023 and through the July 4 weekend, a rate of at least one every day, and outpacing the rates of mass shootings at similar points in the calendar in previous years.

Alex Woodward reports:

America’s mass shooting crisis, in numbers

Biden says he has not reached out to victims’ families yet

00:00 , Ariana Baio

President Joe Biden said he has spoken with local officials in Jacksonville, Florida, as well as governor Ron DeSantis, to see if the families of victims want to be contacted.

“Two of them are prepared to be contacted, one does not want to be contacted,” Mr Biden said on Monday while meeting with organisers of the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington.

“I’m letting this – just let things settle because everyone deals with profound loss in a different way and it’s important, I know from experience, it’s important to try and do it in a way that is most helpful and eases the anxiety the most so I haven’t spoken to them yet,” Mr Biden said.

Daughter of victim retains attorney Ben Crump

23:00 , Ariana Baio

The daughter of a Jacksonville shooting victim has put civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump on retainer, a press release from Mr Crump said.

Armisha Payne, the daughter of 52-year-old Angela Carr, will join Mr Crump in a press conference to speak more about retaining Mr Crump.

In a statement regarding the shooting, Mr Crump said: “Hate is toxic, destructive and deadly. Three families and an entire community are facing the devastating impacts of hate without bounds. Children are now without their loving parents and these families will never be whole again. This senseless and violent act is the latest in a long series of reminders that words drive ideology which give rise to actions, unspeakable actions — and we all pay the price.”

Shooting occurred on anniversary of March on Washington

22:00 , Ariana Baio

The shooting in Jacksonville, Florida came on the same day of the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

While the shooting unfolded, thousands were visiting Washington DC to attend Reverand Al Sharpton’s commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Rudolph McKissick, a national board member of Sharpton’s National Action Network, was not in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. Yet his thoughts on the shooting touched on issues raised by the civil rights leader.

“The irony is on the day we celebrate the 60th commemoration of the March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King stood up and talked about a dream for racial equality and for love, we still yet live in a country where that dream is not a reality,” McKissick said. “That dream has now been replaced by bigotry.”

What we know about the racist 21-year-old Dollar General shooter

21:30 , Ariana Baio

The gunman who shot dead three people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday afternoon in a racially motivated attack has been named as 21-year-old Ryan Christopher Palmeter.

Palmeter is believed to have left the home he shared with his parents in suburban Clay County around 11.40am on Saturday, arriving in his grey Honda Element first at the campus of Edward Waters University (EWU), a historically Black college, about an hour later, only to be turned away by a security guard when he refused to identify himself.

“The individual returned to their car and left campus without incident. The encounter was reported to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office by EWU security,” the school said in a subsequent press release.

Just before the massacre was carried out at the nearby Dollar General branch, Palmeter texted his father advising him to look at his personal computer, on which the suspect’s parents duly found “several manifestos” intended to explain his actions, which Sheriff Waters characterised as “the diary of a madman” during Sunday’s press conference.

Palmeter’s father had called the Clay County Sheriff’s Office at around 2pm to report the manifestos but by then it was already too late.

Palmeter’s writings, which included a will and a note declaring his intention to end his life, are now being examined by investigators.

Jacksonville councilwoman defends DeSantis after booing

21:00 , Ariana Baio

When Florida governor Ron DeSantis was booed during a vigil for the victims of the mass shooting that occurred over the weekend, Jacksonville councilwoman Ju’Coby Pittman stood up for him.

“I wanted the audience to calm down because I wanted him to sit down and I wanted it to be the vent that was for the residents and the community had come together for unity,” Ms Pittman told CNN on Monday.

Ms Pittman became subject to criticism as many felt Mr DeSantis’ appearance was purely political and he deserved to be booed since he has supported loosening gun laws in the state.

But Ms Pittman says her act of defending Mr DeSantis was purely to allow the community and victims’ families to come together and leave Mr DeSantis’ politics out of it.

“That vigil was not about the governor and I will say I do not support any of the stances or policies that the governor have implemented.”

“It was about focusing on the families that was there and the hatred that had come to their community,” Ms Pittman said.

Watch: Ron DeSantis booed by mourners at Jacksonville vigil after racist shooting

20:30 , Ariana Baio

Harrowing video shows Jacksonville shooter launching rampage at Dollar General

20:00 , Ariana Baio

Police in Jacksonville, Florida have released the chilling footage that shows the gunman who carried out a mass shooting at a Dollar General store entering the building and opening fire.

The video, captured on CCTV cameras, shows the suspect armed with an AR-15-style rifle standing outside of the store where he aimed his firearm at the windshield of a car and began firing rounds.

Harrowing video shows Jacksonville shooter launching rampage at Dollar General

How the Jacksonville shooting suspect was able to buy an AR-15-style rifle

19:30 , Ariana Baio

The alleged gunman who shot dead three people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday was able to buy the weapons he used in the attack legally, despite once having been taken into the state’s care after suffering a mental health episode, law enforcement has said.

“In this situation, there was nothing illegal about him owning the firearms,” Sheriff TK Waters said, stressing that the weapons had not belonged to the suspect’s parents, who had refused to allow him to keep firearms in their home.

A photo shared on the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Facebook page over the weekend showed a close-up of one of the guns with at least two swastikas marked on it.

The AR-15-style weapon had “Palmetto State Armory” and “PA-15” engraved on it, with the manufacturer’s website describing the PA-15 model as “our interpretation of the legendary AR-15 rifle that you have grown to love”.

While the gunman had no criminal record, he was previously involved in a 2016 domestic incident involving his brother James – who is reportedly now serving a jail sentence for armed robbery – but was not arrested, the sheriff said.

More significantly, he was also held in state custody in 2017 under Florida’s Baker Act, a statute that allows for people to be “taken to a receiving facility for involuntary examination” for up to 72 hours if they are considered a danger to themselves or others during a mental health crisis.

Speaking to CNN later on Sunday, Sheriff Waters explained: “If there is a Baker Act situation, they’re prohibited from getting guns.”

Asked why, in that case, the guman had been able to buy them, the sheriff said: “We don’t know if that Baker Act was recorded properly, whether it was considered a full Baker Act.”

The investigation is ongoing but the sheriff’s words appear to outline two possible scenarios – administrative error or a favourable ruling on the gunman’s wellbeing – that might explain why he was allowed to purchase the weapons after having been flagged as a cause for concern and taken in for examination by medical professionals under the Act.

White House condemns Jacksonville shooting

19:00 , Ariana Baio

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre condemned the shooting in Jacksonville, Florida that occurred on the same day as the anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr’s I Have a Dream speech.

“Sadly, this day of remembrance ended with yet more American communities wounded by an act of gun violence,” Ms Jean-Pierre said on Monday afternoon.

“We must say clearly and forcefully that white supremacy has no place in America.”

The gunman who opened fire left several notes behind indicating his dislike for Black people and that the shooting was conducted to intentionally target Black people.

“Hate must have no safe harbour, silence is complicity, and we must not remain silent,” Ms Jean-Pierre added before advocating for gun control.

VOICES: Ron DeSantis didn’t listen. No wonder Jacksonville booed him

18:30 , Ariana Baio

“Angie Nixon responded to the community’s anger, saying “at the end of the day, the governor has blood on his hands.”

Nixon is right. DeSantis, and the GOP, have created a climate where violent, racist terrorists have the means and inspiration to commit horrific acts of violence against Black people and other marginalized communities. An increasingly rabid gun rights movement has been cultivated, and with it rabid racist rhetoric, because of what?

A political advantage to capitalize on paranoia and hate. And when followers are fed this diet, the result is a political movement that encourages acts of racist political violence.”

Noah Berlatsky writes:

Ron DeSantis didn’t listen. No wonder Jacksonville booed him

Watch: Jacksonville shooter seen entering Florida store during racially motivated attack

18:00 , Ariana Baio

How was Jacksonville shooting suspect able to buy an AR-15-style rifle?

17:30 , Ariana Baio

The alleged gunman who shot dead three people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday was able to buy the weapons he used in the attack legally, despite once having been taken into the state’s care after suffering a mental health episode, law enforcement has said.

Joe Sommerlad reports:

How was Jacksonville shooting suspect Ryan Palmeter able to buy an AR-15-style rifle?

Jacksonville father among the victims

17:00 , Ariana Baio

Jerrald Gallion, a devoted father and member of the Jacksonville community, is among the victims who were killed in a racially motivated shooting this past weekend.

Gallion, 29, was the father to a four-year-old daughter before he was shot and killed by the gunman at the Dollar General on Saturday.

His family described him as hardworking and devoted to co-parenting his daughter.

“He never missed a beat,” Sabrina Rozier, the maternal grandmother to Gallion’s daughter told The Associated Press. “He got her every weekend. As a matter of fact, he was supposed to have her (Saturday).”

Vice President Harris releases statement on Jacksonville shooting

16:30 , Ariana Baio

On X, formerly known as Twitter, vice president Kamala Harris wrote: ”I am heartbroken by yesterday’s shooting in Jacksonville. This act was reportedly driven by racism and hatred, carried out with a weapon of war that should never have been on the streets. These tragedies must stop. We must renew the ban on assault weapons. It is long overdue.”

Gunman went to a historically Black college before conducting shooting

16:00 , Ariana Baio

The gunman who carried out the shooting at a Dollar General in Jacksonville, Florida first went to Edward Waters University, authorities said.

The gunman, identified as 21-year-old Ryan Christopher Palmeter, left his parents’ home in Clay County around 11.40am on Saturday and went to the campus of the historically Black college.

Authorities said it is unclear why he went to the college but when he arrived he refused to identify himself to a security guard and was told to leave.

“The individual returned to their car and left campus without incident. The encounter was reported to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office by EWU security,” the school said in a press release.

What we know about the racist 21-year-old Dollar General shooter

15:30 , Ariana Baio

The gunman who shot dead three people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday afternoon in a racially motivated attack has been named as 21-year-old Ryan Christopher Palmeter.

Armed with an AR 15-style rifle and Glock handgun and sporting a tactical vest and face mask, the shooter fired 11 rounds into a car in the store’s parking lot – killing his first victim – shortly after 1pm on Saturday before entering the Dollar General in the city’s New Town neighbourhood, allowing some shoppers to leave before opening fire on those who remained, finally turning his gun on himself.

Joe Sommerlad reports:

Who is Ryan Palmeter? What we know about racist Dollar General shooter

Hours after deadly shooting, NRA posts pro-gun ad

15:00 , Ariana Baio

Just hours after a gunman opened fire in a Dollar General, killing three people, the National Rifle Association (NRA) posted a pro-gun photo on X, formerly known as Twitter.

The post took a quote by President Joe Biden saying “Nobody needs an AR-15” and claimed that most Americans “disagree” with this.

“Americans vehemently disagree with Joe on this. Millions of law-abiding citizens own and use AR-15s to defend themselves and their families,” the NRA wrote.

Gun activists criticised the organisation for posting the pro-gun ad just hours after the gunman in Jacksonville used an AR-15-style rifle.

Fred Guttenberg, a gun-control activist, responded: “No entity has worked harder than the NRA to fuel gun violence in America. The American Carnage on our streets is because of them. More guns are not making us safer.”

Florida rep calls out ‘anti-woke’ Ron DeSantis for condemning Jacksonville

14:30 , Ariana Baio

Florida state representative Angie Nixon said she was upset over governor Ron DeSantis’ statement regarding the Jacksonville shooting because she believes it was hypocritical of his actions.

“At the end of the day, the governor has blood on his hands. He has had an all-out attack on the Black community with his anti-woke policies which we know was nothing more than a dog whistle to get folks up and riled up in the way in which it just happened yesterday,” Ms Nixon said to MSNBC

“Throughout the past few legislative sessions, we [Nixon and other Black representatives] have repeatedly told him what his rhetoric was going to do and that is exactly what has transpired on yesterday.”

Shooter had authored manifestos before going on a killing rampage

14:00 , Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

The 21-year-old authored several manifestos, where he detailed his hatred of Black people, Jacksonville sheriff TK Waters said.

The manifestos "detailed the shooter's disgusting ideology of hate", the sheriff said yesterday."Finely put: this shooting was racially motivated and he hated black people."

"The manifesto is, quite frankly... the diary of a madman," he said. "He knew what he was doing. He was 100% lucid. He knew what he was doing and again, it's disappointing that anyone would go to these lengths to hurt someone else.”

Father, 29, among three killed in racially-motivated attack

13:30 , Joe Sommerlad

Jerrald Gallion planned to spend the weekend with his 4-year-old daughter but the devoted father was instead one of three Black people gunned down Saturday afternoon at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida.

Gallion, 29, was shot as he entered the store’s front door with his girlfriend in a predominantly Black neighborhood. The killing marked him as another victim in the latest racist attack in the US.

“My brother shouldn’t have lost his life,” his sister, Latiffany Gallion, said Sunday. “A simple day of going to the store, and he’s taken away from us forever.”

You can read more here.

Jacksonville shooting: Father, 29, among three killed in racially-motivated attack

Jacksonville’s mayor speaks out on gun legislation following tragic shooting

13:00 , Joe Sommerlad

“I am absolutely a proponent of common sense gun legislation,” Mayor Donna Deegan said on MSNBC on Sunday, warning Florida is “going backwards” on the issue.

You can watch the full clip here:

America sets horrifying 17-year record for mass killings

12:30 , Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

The US saw more mass killings in the first half of this year than any other six-month period over the last 17 years, new data shows.

There were more than 28 mass killings between 1 January and 30 June, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University.

Previously, the record for a six-month period was 27 – which was set in the second half of 2022. The database defines a mass killing as an incident where four or more people are killed, not including the attacker, within a 24-hour period.

Although the mass killing does not need to include a gun to fit the definition, 99 per cent of the incidents in the first half of this year did involve a firearm. Only one did not.

Ariana Baio has more.

America sets horrifying 17-year record for mass killings

NAACP president condemns ‘act of hatred’ and calls for assault weapon ban

12:00 , Joe Sommerlad

NAACP president Derrick Johnson has condemned the killing as an act of hatred and called for an assault weapon ban in a statement.

“It’s a sad day in America when we realise that extremists will stop at nothing to undermine our work to thrive,” he said.

“As we continued the march for freedom in Washington, hateful actors continued to carry out the white supremacist agenda in Jacksonville, claiming the lives of Black Americans in the name of an era we refuse to go back to.

“Today’s tragedy is a reminder of why we march, and why we will stop at nothing to ensure that democracy works for everybody. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families who stand to be forever impacted by today’s acts of hatred. Enough is enough. We must ban assault weapons now.”

Makeshift memorial created near the shooting site in Jacksonville

11:30 , Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Shooting described as ‘racially-motivated’ attack as investigators review killer’s manifestos

11:00 , Joe Sommerlad

Law enforcement are examining the writings left behind by the shooter. According to Sheriff Waters, the gunman used racial slurs and conveyed his “disgusting ideology of hate.”

The suspect didn’t appear to know the victims but “there is absolutely no evidence the shooter is part of any larger group,” according to the sheriff.

The FBI has launched a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting and “will pursue this incident as a hate crime,” said Sherri Onks, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Jacksonville office.

Read the full story:

Everything we know about the Florida Dollar General Shooting

Ron DeSantis booed by mourners at Jacksonville vigil

10:30 , Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

Florida governor Ron DeSantis was heckled at a vigil held for the three victims of a racially motivated mass shooting in Jacksonville.

Mr DeSantis, who is running for the GOP nomination for president, has been criticised for easing gun laws in Florida and initially staying silent on the shooting. In April this year, the governor signed a bill into law that allows people to carry concealed weapons without a government permit.

As the governor began speaking at the vigil on Sunday, many members of a crowd of over a hundred people booed Mr DeSantis, forcing him to step back from the microphone.

More here.

Ron DeSantis booed by mourners as he attends Jacksonville vigil after racist shooting

Watch: Jacksonville Sheriff TK Waters discusses Saturday’s shooting

10:00 , Joe Sommerlad

You can watch Sunday’s press conference below.

Watch: Vigil held for the victims of deadly Jacksonville shooting

09:30 , Joe Sommerlad

You can watch the Florida community coming together to mourn the victims below.

Watch live: Vigil held for the victims of deadly Jacksonville shooting

Moms Demand Action founder hits out at Republicans, gun manufacturers and Christian nationalists

09:00 , Joe Sommerlad

Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, a gun control advocacy group, has joined the outcry over America’s latest gun violence incident in Jacksonville.

Everything we know about the Florida Dollar General shooting

08:30 , Joe Sommerlad

A gunman has killed three people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida in what authorities are calling a racially-motivated mass shooting.

Shortly after 1pm on Saturday, a man entered the store armed with an AR-style rifle, Glock handgun and “outfitted with a tactical vest,” Jacksonville Sheriff TK Waters said at a press conference.

The three victims - two men and one woman - were Black. They were identified on Sunday as Angela Michelle Carr, 52, Anolt Joseph “AJ” Laguerre Jr, 19, and Jarrald De’Shaun Gallion, 29.

“This is a dark day in Jacksonville’s history. There is no place for hate in this community,” the sheriff said. “I am sickened by this cowardly shooter’s personal ideology.”

Kelly Rissman reports.

Everything we know about the Florida Dollar General Shooting

08:00 , Kelly Rissman

President Joe Biden reacted after the Jacksonville shooting

“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,” the president wrote.

Read the full statement:

Shooter first tried to enter a historic Black college

07:30 , Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

The 21-year-old gunman first went to Edward Waters University, where he refused to identify himself to a security guard and was told to leave the campus.

Around 11.39am he parked in a lot behind the university library where he was witnessed wearing a black bulletproof vest and latex gloves, sheriff TK Waters said.

He then drove to a nearby Dollar General store where he shot Angela Michelle Carr in her car, before walking inside the store and killing Anolt Joseph Laguerre.

The third victim, Jerrald De’Shaun Gallion, was shot when he entered the store after others fled through a back door.

According to the sheriff, the gunman allowed White people to leave the store during the attack.

Following the shooting, Edward Waters University went into a lockdown on Saturday until 4.35pm, the college said.

07:00 , Kelly Rissman

What the Florida Governor said in the wake of the shooting