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NPR News: 08-27-2023 7PM EDT

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🗓️ 27 August 2023

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NPR News: 08-27-2023 7PM EDT

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0:00.0

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

0:04.9

Authorities in Jacksonville, Florida have released the identities of both the gunmen and

0:09.3

victims in yesterday's hate-motivated shooting at a dollar general store that left three

0:14.6

black people dead and ended with the shooter killing himself.

0:18.3

From Member Station WJCT, Will Brown has more.

0:21.3

The Jacksonville Sheriff is identifying Angela Michelle Carr, AJ Laguerre Jr., and Gerald

0:26.4

Gallian as those killed by the gunman, 21-year-old Ryan Christopher Pellmeter.

0:32.0

Authorities have said that Pellmeter was motivated by racist hatred toward black people and wrote

0:37.2

what they are describing as a manifesto.

0:39.3

Here's Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters.

0:41.3

The manifesto is quite frankly the diary of a madman.

0:46.5

He was just completely irrational, but with the rational thoughts, he knew what he was

0:56.4

doing.

0:57.4

He had 100 percent.

0:58.4

He was 100 percent elucid.

0:59.8

Water says Pellmeter acquired the guns used in the shooting legally from retailers in

1:04.1

Jacksonville and Orange Park.

1:06.4

For NPR News, I'm Will Brown, in Jacksonville, Florida.

1:10.4

It's been nearly two years since the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, but Afghans resettled

1:15.6

in the U.S. are still facing challenges reuniting with family members.

1:20.3

Lakshmi Sarah from Member Station KQED has more.

1:23.2

Mohammed Sharif came to the U.S. one month before the collapse of the Afghan government

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