The gunman, who was killed by the police, had made “anti-Semitic and racist statements,” the Suffolk County district attorney said.
The authorities in Winthrop, Mass., are investigating whether a white man who shot and killed two Black people on Saturday after crashing a stolen truck into a house was acting out of racial and religious hatred. The suspect, Nathan Allen,28, had made “anti-Semitic and racist statements against Black individuals,” said Rachael Rollins, the district attorney in Suffolk County. She said investigators had found “some troubling white-supremacist rhetoric” in Mr. Allen’s own handwriting. Ms. Rollins did not say where investigators found these writings. Ms. Rollins said her office was investigating the shooting as a hate crime and believed Mr. Allen had acted alone. Mr. Allen stole a large truck owned by a plumbing and drain company and rammed it into a home in Winthrop, a neighborhood about seven miles east of downtown Boston, the authorities said. Mr. Allen then fled on foot, the Winthrop Police Department said in a statement. The shooting occurred at the intersection of Shirley and Cross Streets at 2:41 p.
