A 39-year-old black man accused of shooting and injuring five people in Alabama and Georgia told authorities that his attacks were racially motivated and he was targeting white men, a detective testified on Monday. Justin Tyran Roberts told police that white men had picked on him and wronged him all his life. “Basically, he explained throughout his life, specifically white males had taken from him, and also what he described as ‘military-looking white males’ had taken from him,” Detective Brandon Lockhart testified, according to the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer. Roberts also alleged that those men were “shooting at him in a wooded area with a slingshot,” and that his skin was wounded, testified the investigator, who added that the police didn’t find the wounds to substantiate that claim. Lockhart also testified during the preliminary hearing on Monday that the alleged shooter said about one of the gunfire victims, “I had to have him.” Roberts has been …
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