Massachusetts gunman who killed two left ‘white supremacist rhetoric’

• Two people of color killed in Boston suburb of Winthrop
• DA: deceased suspect wrote ‘antisemitic and racist statements’

Authorities in Massachusetts are investigating whether a man who killed two people in the Boston suburb of Winthrop on Saturday targeted them because they were Black, after officials found “troubling white supremacist rhetoric” in the gunman’s handwriting, a prosecutor said.

The Suffolk county district attorney, Rachael Rollins, identified the gunman as 28-year-old Nathan Allen and said investigators uncovered writings that expressed “antisemitic and racist statements against Black individuals”.

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