Prosecutors have disclosed that the white man who crashed a truck into an empty house in Massachusetts, and singled out two Black people from a crowd of bystanders and shot them dead, was a white supremacist who had written that whites are “apex predators.”
Suffolk County District Attorney, Rachel Rollins disclosed that 28-year-old Nathan Allen, 28, stole a truck from a plumbing company, rammed the truck into a home in Winthrop, Massachusetts, then singled out and killed bystanders David Green and Ramona Cooper.
Police who got to the scene shot at Allen, who later died in the hospital.
In a statement, Rollins said Allen had “troubling white supremacist rhetoric found in own handwriting,” and there was proof of “anti-Semitic and racist statements against Black individuals.”
Rollins added: “This individual wrote about the superiority of the white race. About whites being ‘apex predators. He walked by several other people that were not Black, they are alive, they were not harmed.”
Police described Green (one of the victims) as a retired state trooper that had served 36 years on the force, while Cooper (the other victim) was said to be a 60-year-old Air Force veteran.
Cooper passed on in the hospital after he was shot three times in the back. Green was shot at least four times in the head and three times in the torso. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
In a footage obtained by ABC News, the stolen truck could be seen being driven out of frame, and a loud noise described as the sound of it hitting the house is later heard.
According to Anti-Defamation League, white supremacist agenda in the US includes racist, anti-Semitic and anti-LGBTQ messages which almost doubled last year to a unprecedented level as a New York-based advocacy group’s data revealed that 5,125 cases were reported in 2020, against 2,724 cases that were reported in 2019.
