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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Katie Hawkinson

Gunman in Walmart shooting that injured four partly motivated by racist ideology says FBI

Marshall Gorby/Dayton Daily News via AP

The gunman who injured four people at a Walmart in Beavercreek, Ohio this week was motivated in part by racist ideology, according to an update from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Benjamin Charles Jones — who injured two Black women as well as a white man and white woman — was “partially inspired by racially motivated violent extremist (RMVE) ideology,” a 22 November update from the FBI and Beavercreek, Ohio police said.

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