Accused Winthrop Gunman: 'Racism Is Healthy And Natural'

WINTHROP, MA — A gunman who fatally shot two people in Winthrop last month wrote about white people being "apex predators" and racism being "healthy and natural" just days before the killings, according to excerpts from his notebooks, which were released by the Suffolk District Attorney's Office on Wednesday.

Nathan Allen, 28, killed Air Force veteran Ramona Cooper and retired Massachusetts State Police trooper David Green in what authorities are investigating as a hate-fueled attack. The shootings happened after Allen crashed a stolen box truck near the intersection of Shirley and Cross streets on June 26.

Allen was shot and killed by police.

“Three separate families, and the entire Winthrop community have experienced significant trauma," Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins said in a statement. "The Cooper family, the Green family and the Allen family are now inextricably tied. Over the last 11 days, the community has come together to mourn the tragic loss of Staff Sergeant Cooper and Trooper Green, honoring the heroes that they are."

Investigators are reviewing extremist literature that Allen "frequently" read in recent months, said Rollins. His personal journals included statements about Black people being "[expletive] losers" and knowing "they are inferior to us," racism being "healthy and natural" and white people being "the world's apex predators."

"Jesus Christ I hate [expletive]," he wrote in one journal, which he called "The Allen Diaries." "I hope I can turn Audrey to the truth or her to me. But I [expletive] doubt it. When will it all pop off?"

Investigators said that entry was dated June 24, less than 48 hours before the killings.

Authorities believe Allen acted alone and displayed few, if any, outward signs about what he was planning. He was married, had a doctorate and "likely appeared unassuming," Rollins previously said. His pandemic wedding was featured in a feel-good Boston Globe story last summer.

Rollins highlighted that Allen's family is mourning the loss of "the man they thought they knew."

"This man had fooled so many, outwardly appearing stable and upstanding while internally filled with extremist ideologies and hatred," she said Wednesday.