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A killer who gunned down two people after crashing a stolen box truck in a Boston suburb was a white supremacist who targeted his victims because they were black, according to officials.
Nathan Allen, 28, shot and killed David Green, a retired Massachusetts State Police trooper, and Romana Cooper, an Air Force veteran, after emerging from a stolen truck that he crashed into a building in Winthrop on Saturday afternoon.
After the crash, he interacted “with multiple individuals … choosing only to shoot and kill the two black people he encountered,” Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins said of the killer who was shot dead at the scene by a police sergeant.
Allen “walked by several other people that were not black and they are alive. They were not harmed,” Rollins told reporters Sunday.
“They are alive and these two visible people of color are not,” she said of the Swastika-drawing killer who wrote about white people being “apex predators.”
Cooper was shot in the back multiple times and Green was shot in the head, neck, and torso repeatedly, the prosecutor said.
Green was shot outside his home and “may have been trying to engage the suspect to end the threat,” a state police spokesperson said.
After his rampage, Allen was fatally shot by a police sergeant who “like Trooper Green and Staff Sergeant Cooper, is a hero,” the D.A. said.
Investigators then “unearthed troubling white supremacy rhetoric and statements written by the shooter,” the D.A. said, highlighting “anti-Semitic and racist statements against black individuals.”
“This individual wrote about the superiority of the white race. About whites being ‘apex predators.’ He drew swastikas,” Rollins said, calling white supremacy a “growing national, and global, problem.”
“This shooter was married and employed. He had a Ph.D. and no criminal history. To all external sources he likely appeared unassuming,” Rollins said, without elaborating on where his troubling writings were found.
Green retired from state police in 2016 and worked in law enforcement for nearly 40 years, said Massachusetts State Police Col. Christopher Mason.
“Trooper Green was widely respected and well-liked by his fellow Troopers, several of whom yesterday described him as a ‘true gentleman’ and always courteous to the public and meticulous in his duties,” Mason said in an emailed statement. “From what we learned yesterday, he was held in equally high regard by his neighbors and friends in Winthrop.”
Rollins said that “these families deserve answers and we will find out what happened here.”
With Post wires
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