Gunman Ryan Palmeter who killed 3 had listed Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly as 'valid targets' for 'kill on sight'
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA: A gunman who killed three Black people at a Dollar General store in Florida left a manifesto in which he called Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly “valid targets” who should “be killed on sight.”
He also claimed that he had once been close enough to Kelly, but missed an opportunity to shoot him.
Ryan Palmeter, 21, was a White supremacist who hated anyone who was not White or who associated with Black people.
How long was Ryan Palmeter's manifesto?
He wrote a nearly 30-page manifesto that expressed his racist views and his desire for a race war.
In his manifesto, the excerpts of which were seen by Rolling Stone, he singled out Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly, two White rappers who have collaborated with Black artists and have a large fan base among Black people.
He accused them of being “n***r lovers” and “honorary n*****s” who had “stared the abyss” and “become a n****r”.
He said they should be killed on sight along with any other non-White person.
“Eminem … stared the abyss and the abyss stared back," he wrote, adding, “Walks the edge of n*** lover and honorary n****.
"Fell off not because his new stuff sucked but because the lyrics were gay annoying liberal shit...ROE for Total N*** Death is to include Eminem … as a valid target and he is to be killed on sight.”
Did Ryan Palmeter attempt to kill Machine Gun Kelly?
Ryan also revealed that he had once been in Ohio where Kelly is from and had missed an opportunity to shoot him.
He wrote, “Colson Baker (aka Machine Gun Kelly): Honorable n***r. To be killed on sight like Eminem because I didn’t get a shot at him up in Ohio”.
Neither Eminem nor Kelly have commented on the manifesto or the shooting.
The FBI is investigating the incident as a hate crime and said that Palmeter acted alone and had legally purchased the guns he used.
Palmeter killed himself after shooting four people, three of whom died, at the Dollar General store in Jacksonville on Saturday.
Who did Ryan Palmeter praise in his manifesto?
Palmeter also praised Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ conservative policies and Timothy McVeigh, who killed 168 people in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.
He noted, “he now lives in our hearts.”
FBI Director Christopher Wray said, the investigation into the shooting up to this point “reveals the perpetrator of Saturday’s attack through his own writings, through the references he made, and through his actions, make clear his intentions, his actions, his motivations, his hate.”