HARROWING footage has captured the moment a crazed shooter stormed into a Dollar General store as he went on his rampage.
Ryan Palmeter killed three people before turning the weapon on himself in Jacksonville, Florida, in a shooting that is being investigated as a hate crime.
Officers revealed that the AR-15 semi-automatic weapon used in Saturday’s shooting was covered in Nazi swastikas.
Footage released by the Jacksonville Police Department showed the shooter aiming the weapon at a parked car in the lot before stepping foot into the store.
The surveillance footage captured the shooter, who was sporting a bulletproof vest, walking through the convenience store’s automatic doors before pointing the weapon down one of the aisles.
Palmeter, 21, had masked up and was seen wearing gloves before he went on his rampage.
Cops have identified the victims as Michelle Carr, 52, Anolt Joseph Laguerre Jr., 19, and Jerrald De’Shaun Gallion, 29.
Carr was targeted in her car outside while Laguerre Jr. tried to flee the store as he was shot.
Palmeter fired 11 shots that went through Carr’s windshield, which killed her.
Meanwhile, Gallion was shot as headed into the supermarket with his girlfriend.
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Cops said that Palmeter chased and tried to shoot people fleeing the Dollar General store via the backdoor.
Sheriff T.K. Waters said the killings were racially motivated and revealed Palmeter “hated black people.”
Cops said that it appears Palmeter didn’t know the three victims and they suspect he acted alone.
After his shooting spree at the discount store, Palmeter turned the weapon on himself.
CRAZED RAMPAGE
Waters said the shooting should never have happened and branded it a dark day in the history of Jacksonville.
Police said they discovered a manifesto that contained a “disgusting ideology of hate.”
Cops swooped on a home in Clay County that was reportedly linked to the shooting.
Investigators searched the property and left the home with a computer, as reported by local news outlet WJXT.
Police said that Palmeter had sent his dad a text message urging him to check his computer after he left Clay County.
Palmeter’s dad then came across a last will and testament on the computer, according to police.
Waters claimed that the manifesto was completely irrational, as he compared it to a “diary of a madman.”
He said: "He was just completely irrational. But with irrational thoughts, he knew what he was doing. He was 100% lucid."
Police revealed that Palmeter was carrying two weapons – a Glock handgun and an AR-15.
Cops confirmed that the firearms were bought legally earlier this year.
'DIARY OF MADMAN'
Sherri Onks, of the Jacksonville FBI office, confirmed the shooting is being probed as a hate crime.
Onks said: “Hate crimes are always and will always remain a top priority for the FBI because they are not only an attack on a victim, they're also meant to threaten and intimidate an entire community.”
Merrick Garland, the US Attorney General, said: "No person in this country should have to live in fear of hate-fueled violence and no family should have to grieve the loss of a loved one to bigotry and hate.”
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said the shooter "took the coward's way out."
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DeSantis said: "[The shooter] was targeting people based on their race. That is totally unacceptable."
Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan told reporters: "We must do everything that we can to dissuade this type of hate."
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