There’s a sobering update on the story of a probably racially motivated shooting at a Kroger’s grocery store in the Louisville area.
From the AP via the Chicago Sun-Times
JEFFERSONTOWN, Ky. — A white man with a history of violence and mental illness was recorded on surveillance video apparently trying to get inside a predominantly black church in Kentucky before he went to a grocery store and fatally shot two African-Americans, police said.
After releasing a photo of the suspect, authorities received a tip from an employee of the city of Jeffersontown who said he thought he saw Gregory Bush outside the First Baptist church prior to Wednesday’s shooting, city police chief Sam Rogers said. The video confirmed Bush’s presence about 10 to 15 minutes before he went to the grocery store, Rogers said. The church is headed by a black pastor and has a large African-American membership
.Bush “appeared to try to gain access to the church,” Rogers said.
I’m going to push fair use here because this next item from Dylan Lovan’s reporting should surprise me...but it really doesn’t
Bush’s ex-wife is African-American, and she has received protection orders against him after violent outbursts, including an incident in 2009 when she told police he called her racial epithets during a custody exchange of their son. They divorced in 2000.