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Mass.: Retired Black Air Force vet and a Black cop are shot dead in possible hate crime
A man who allegedly spouted racist, anti-Semitic and white supremacist rhetoric stole a truck, decimated a building by ramming it, and then fatally shot a retired Black Air Force veteran and a Black cop in what police are investigating as a hate crime.
A police officer in Winthrop, Massachusetts, then shot the suspect, who later died.
Massachusetts State Police are investigating the shooting rampage as a possible hate crime, even as they mourn one of their own.
Authorities identified the victims as David Green, 58, a retired Massachusetts State Police officer who had been with the force for 36 years, and 60-year-old Ramona Cooper, Air Force veteran who still worked with the military, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins said Sunday at a news conference. ...........(more)
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-black-air-force-veteran-cop-shot-dead-possible-hate-crime-20210628-t4ofk4fcp5gw7grhyu5feil3wu-story.html
