Police: Alabama, Georgia shooting spree was racially motivated

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The Atlanta Journal Constitution

‘I had to have him,’ suspect allegedly tells police about one of the shooting victims

A 39-year-old man accused of shooting and wounding five people in Alabama and Georgia told police his assaults were racially motivated, and he was targeting white men, a detective testified Monday.

The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reported a police detective testified in a preliminary hearing that Justin Tyran Roberts, who is Black, told police that white men “had picked on him and wronged him for all his life.”

“Basically, he explained throughout his life, specifically white males had taken from him, and also what he described as military-looking white males had taken from him,” Detective Brandon Lockhart testified, according to the newspaper.

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