00:00Disturbing video captured the heinous moment a crazed gunman went on an alleged racist killing
00:04spree on Friday, killing at least one person and injuring five others, including a 12-year-old girl.
00:10The horrific surveillance video captured the shooting suspect, identified only as 39-year-old
00:15Kevin T., firing and reloading a semi-automatic weapon outside a gas station just south of the
00:22Parisian suburb of Troppe. A victim of the attack can be spotted tripping over his scooter and
00:27falling onto the floor at the entrance of the gas station after being senselessly targeted by the
00:32unhinged gunman. According to the French newspaper Le Monde, the suspect started his rampage at around
00:3710 a.m. when he started firing a submachine gun out of his gray hatchback while traversing local streets
00:43in Troppe. First he targeted a mother and daughter in their car, then he shot indiscriminately at a
00:48medical building, before turning around and senselessly gunning down Pengobosio Wanji, a 26-year-old
00:54amateur mixed martial arts fighter who was killed at the scene. The suspect then headed south and
01:00targeted two more people at a gas station, before heading to the nearby town of La Verrière and
01:05injuring two others outside a pharmacy. The outlet said he targeted his final victim, a 12-year-old
01:11girl about a half a mile away, firing at least eight rounds into her. The Guardian reported that the young
01:16victim was being treated at a children's hospital, but the massacre was put to rest after police stopped
01:21the suspect's car and quickly arrested him. France's anti-terrorism prosecutor said cops
01:27found a British submachine gun in his car as well as tear gas grenades. French politicians from across
01:33the political spectrum joined in unison to condemn the disturbing attack. And President Emmanuel Macron
01:39helped shed light into the shooter's potential motivations, as investigators from the National
01:43Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office started to take charge. To a swarm of reporters, Macron called the
01:49senseless shootings a, quote, racist terrorist attack, which was fueled by, quote, racist ideology.
02:20According to several French reports,
02:22prosecutors reportedly found a copy of Adolf Hitler's autobiographical manifesto, Mein Kampf,
02:28inside the suspect's home, as well as a copy of the Bible and a Quran. Prosecutors also said they
02:33discovered trace amounts of marijuana and cocaine in the suspect's blood and had placed him in a
02:38psychiatric hold for around 48 hours. One source even told AFP that the suspect was suffering from
02:44schizophrenia and had been undergoing treatment. The suspect also had several previous run-ins with the
02:50law. According to Le Monde, Kevin had already racked up 13 criminal offenses, ranging from DUI to
02:56burglary. But the outlet said he wasn't known to the country's National Directorate of Territorial
03:00Intelligence. TROP's Mayor Ali Rabbe spoke candidly to the press after the attack, telling reporters that
03:07any of the victims, quote, could just as easily have been my mother, my brothers or my sisters-in-law.
03:40The attack inspired some to take
03:42to the streets in the Paris suburbs to condemn racist attacks in the country.
03:46The shooting comes as tense riots have already plunged the French capital into chaos over the
03:51weekend, as hundreds of thousands of protesters clashed with police, tossing rocks and fireworks
03:56at riot-gear-clad officers. At least 137 people were arrested in the City of Love,
04:02with authorities seizing illegal weapons, along with metal projectiles and even a katana sword.
