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Two Black Men Shot Near Boston In Suspected Hate Crime
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After a man allegedly crashed a stolen plumbing vehicle into a house in a Boston suburb Saturday, police say he fled authorities and shot two black men in what is being investigated as a potential hate crime, NBC Boston reported.
Nathan Allen, 28, the suspected shooter in the Winthrop, Massachusetts, incident, had a history of making “anti-Semitic and racist statements against Black individuals,” Suffolk County District Attorney Rachel Rollins said in a statement Sunday.
Allen previously made comments about “the superiority of the white race” and described white people as “apex predators,” something that Rollins identified as a steady history of Allen’s “troubling white-supremacist rhetoric,” she said in the statement.
Yesterday, retired Massachusetts State Trooper David Green and Air Force Staff Sergeant Ramona Cooper were murdered in Winthrop by a man who drew swastikas and handwrote messages about whites being superior and “apex predators.” pic.twitter.com/kBRt6Wmwtv
— DA Rachael Rollins (@DARollins) June 28, 2021
The D.A.’s office is investigating the shooting as a hate crime, and believes that Allen worked alone during the shooting.
As the investigation continues and resources are extended to the victims’ loved ones and to the Winthrop community, we must say loud and clear that hate has no place in our communities or our nation. https://t.co/XsxY3OesTs
— DA Rachael Rollins (@DARollins) June 28, 2021
Allen was likely “unassuming” to most, Rollins said, as he was married, held a Ph.D., and had no prior criminal background. However, Rollins’ office is treating the incident as a hate crime given his past statements and history of drawing swastikas.
The two victims of the suspected hate crime — David Green, a retired State Police officer with three decades of experience, and Ramona Cooper, a 60-year-old Air Force veteran — were shot in both the head and torso. Police eventually subdued and shot Allen following a standoff, in which Allen refused to lower his weapon, The New York Times reported.
The Winthrop Police Department did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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