The shooter who killed three people in a racially-motivated attack at a Jacksonville Dollar General store first tried to get onto the campus of a historically Black college nearby but was turned away by a security guard, the Associated Press reports.
A security guard spotted the shooter outside the library at Edward Waters University and asked him what he was doing on campus. After checking his identification, the security guard escorted the man back to his car, which he drove off campus without incident.
The man then put on a mask and a bullet-resistant vest before shooting up the store, less than a mile away. After barricading himself in the store, leading to a standoff during which he spouted his racist idiocy, he canceled himself.