Walmart shooter a person of color; left 'death note'

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Walmart shooter a person of color; left 'death note'

By Ben Finley and Matthew Barakat, The Associated Press The Walmart supervisor who fatally shot six co-workers at a store in Virginia bought the gun just hours before the killings […]

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