Jacksonville shooting: Racist gunman kills three black people in Florida store

A gunman killed 3 achromatic radical successful a racially motivated onslaught past killed himself successful Jacksonville, Florida, the city's sheriff said.

The man, described arsenic achromatic and successful his aboriginal 20s, entered a Dollar General store and opened fire, triggering a standoff with police.

Sheriff T K Waters said 2 men and a pistillate were killed by the gunman, who wore assemblage armour and near manifestos.

Mayor Donna Deegan said it was a "hate-filled crime" driven by racist hatred.

The sheriff said the shooter - who has not yet been officially named - carried a lightweight semi-automatic firearm and a handgun.

He is believed to person acted unsocial and allegedly wanted to termination himself. He lived successful Jacksonville's Clay County with his parents and "authored respective manifestos", Sheriff Waters said, including 1 to his parents and different to the media.

The FBI has opened a civilian rights probe into the shooting, which it is treating arsenic a hatred crime.

Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan told section TV transmission WJXT: "One shooting is excessively overmuch but these wide shootings are truly hard to take."

In a connection provided to the BBC's US partner, CBS News, Dollar General said it was "heartbroken by the senseless enactment of unit that occurred astatine our Kings Road store", adding that "supporting our Jacksonville employees and the DG household impacted by this calamity is simply a apical precedence arsenic we enactment intimately with instrumentality enforcement".

There person been implicit 28,000 weapon deaths successful the US truthful acold this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive website.

The Jacksonville onslaught comes connected the 60th day of the March connected Washington and Martin Luther King Jr's celebrated "I person a dream" speech.