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.

  • Flying Squid
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    8310 months ago

    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.

  • @captainlezbian
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    2210 months ago

    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

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      • @captainlezbian
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        510 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    610 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?