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A white gunman who opened fire inside a Walmart in Ohio and wounded four people before killing himself may have been motivated by racist extremism, the FBI said Wednesday.

Four shoppers — two Black women, a white woman and a white man — were wounded in the attack at the Walmart in Beavercreek, a suburb of Dayton, just days before Thanksgiving, the FBI said.

Evidence, including journal writings, show the shooting may have been at least partially inspired by racially violent extremist ideology, according to the FBI.

The shooter, identified as 20-year-old Benjamin Charles Jones, of Dayton, entered the store Monday night, carrying a Hi-Point 45-caliber Carbine long gun, police said. He shot an undetermined number of rounds, leaving injured victims throughout the building, before turning the weapon on himself, authorities said.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 83 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm not scared of Muslim terrorists attacking the United States and committing mass murder.

I'm very scared of right-wing terrorists doing it.

[–] 520@kbin.social 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They don't need to bomb us to tear us apart anymore. They just let the right wing loonies do it for them.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ironically while Putin fails in his assault on Ukraine, much of this has been seeded in social media as part of Russia’s geopolitical strategy to sow discord in the west and increase support for fascist regimes. Bad at military conflict, good at fucking with western people through social media

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/origins-russias-broad-political-assault-united-states/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-documents-reveal-desire-sow-racial-discord-violence-u-s-n1008051

[–] 520@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

Oh yeah. Putin's forces suck at open warfare but are great at subversion.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Racially motivated shooting in a beavercreek Ohio Walmart feels like deja vu, but I might just be mixing a lot of details from a variety of things that happened

[–] flooppoolf@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Stopped keeping names and places after a mass shooting hit my home town. It’s everywhere in the US.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah it’s just I lived there once and I seem to recall it happening when I lived there.

[–] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

Wow. Goes on a shooting spree, kills no one, injures a few, proceeds to kill himself.

If only all mass shooting had this shitty of a perp. Better yet, how about gun control and mental health care?