Retired State Trooper and an Air Force veteran shot to death in Massachusetts

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[A] gunman “executed” [58-year-old retired Massachusetts state trooper] Green, shooting him four times in the head and three times in the torso, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins said at a news conference.

The suspected gunman, 28-year-old Nathan Allen ... also allegedly killed Air Force veteran Ramona Cooper, 60, shooting her three times in the back around the same time he shot Green ...

Shortly thereafter, a Winthrop Police sergeant shot and killed Allen, after repeatedly asking him to drop his weapons.

Now, authorities are investigating the killings as hate crimes, citing a preliminary investigation that found “troubling white supremacy rhetoric” by Allen, who wrote of the “superiority of the white race” and drew swastikas, Rollins said in a statement Sunday.

Asked by a reporter whether Allen targeted Green and Cooper, who were both Black, Rollins said that after he crashed into the residence, Allen “walked by several other people that were not Black, and they are alive … and these two visible people of color are not.”

'Hate fueled by white supremacy' behind killing of two Black people in Massachusetts, authorities say

On Wednesday, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins, whose office is leading the investigation, said journals recovered at Allen's apartment depicted him as fueled by hate.

"White people are the worlds apex predators," Allen wrote in his journal, according to excerpts released by the DA's office. He also wrote, "Whites in the USA are waking up. FACT."

Elsewhere in his writings, he used a variety of slurs to refer to Black people and called on White people to "snap" and murder Black people in cold blood.