Exclusive: Black felon who killed three White men exhibited anti-White hate

[D. Ray]

Burnsville, Minnesota – A Black felon—barred from owning firearms—was
identified as the man behind a brutal shooting and SWAT standoff that
killed three White men, reports say. Unearthed social media posts also
revealed the now-deceased killer held a hatred of White people.

According to reports, 38-year-old Shannon Cortez Gooden shot and killed
three White first responders during an intense SWAT standoff early Sunday
morning. Gooden—who is Black—was believed to have barricaded himself inside
a home in Burnsville, a suburb of 58% White Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Police were originally called to the home for a “domestic disturbance,”
where they found Gooden armed to the teeth with a considerable amount of
weapons and ammunition. A Police spokesman stated he took cover inside the
home alongside his children, ages 2 to 15.

During a hostage negotiation, Gooden is believed to have opened fire,
killing two police officers and a firefighter paramedic, all of whom were
White men. The victims were later identified as Officers Paul Elmstrand,
27, Matthew Ruge, 27, and Adam Finseth, 40. A third officer, Sgt. Adam
Medlicott, was also injured, but sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

Reports indicate that when paramedic Finseth tried to render aid to the
downed officers, Gooden shot him too. Superintendent Drew Evans said in a
statement that the children were able to escape the home. Gooden died from
a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head and was declared around 8 am on
Sunday.

On social media, the three victims were remembered as heroes, and dutiful
members of their community. Elmstrand joined the Burnsville Police
Department in 2017 as a Community Service Officer, before being promoted to
full Officer in 2019. He was a trainer, and part of the department’s mobile
command, and Honor Guard. Ruge joined the Burnsville Police in April of
2020. He was a talented and highly trained hostage negotiator. Finseth was
a Burnsville Firefighter and Paramedic since February 2019.

While the mainstream media has yet to officially identify Gooden as the
suspect, social media sleuths and local news outlets were able to
independently confirm his identity and unearth a history of troubling
details. In a Facebook video uploaded before his death, Gooden can be seen
firing a rifle alongside an unidentified individual, while stating that
he’s “envisioning a white person” as his target down range.

In the video, he also appears to make a joke that a woman out of frame is
“expendable.”

In 2020, Gooden requested to have his firearm rights reinstated following a
felony assault conviction in 2008. Copies of a now-unearthed legal petition
for Shannon Gooden were uploaded online and submitted to a Minnesota court.
The documents would reveal that Gooden had been convicted of violent felony
assault charges in 2008 and subsequently had his firearm privileges
revoked.

According to his Facebook, Gooden was also an activist in support of former
President Barrack Obama, calling his critics "stay-at-home moms" who would
only benefit from the Obama administration's policies on social programs
and food stamps.

While details behind the "domestic disturbance" call are slim, users on
social media alleged police responded after a family member reported him
for an alleged act of sexual abuse against a minor. The Justice Report
could not independently verify the claim but this article will be updated
as new details emerge.

Public servants in the United States—particularly White ones—continue to
face horrific acts of violence, death, and systemic anti-White policies,
which only hamstring their ability to carry out their jobs. In the
Minneapolis area, where Gooden massacred three White men, violent crimes
have only increased dramatically since 2020, after the death of the career
criminal, George Floyd, kicked off a riot-filled "summer of racial
reckoning."

Meanwhile, Black Americans continue to be overrepresented in the fields of
mass shootings, murders, and other abhorrent acts of violence. According to
the most recent dataset maintained by Mass-shootings.info, Black Americans
committed an alarming 71% of all mass shootings in the United States, with
White and Hispanic suspects accounting for only 14%, each.

In July of 2023, a Black spree-killer in Hampton Georgia killed four White
neighbors, breaking into their homes and shooting them in broad daylight.
It would be one of 356 recorded mass shootings in the United States in 2023
alone,

In April of that same year, Police arrested Robert Singletary, a Black man
who fled the state after shooting a White family in Gastonia, North
Carolina. According to Jamie White, the heroic father who shielded his
6-year-old daughter from gunfire, the shooter said he "doesn’t like white
people" as he used two handguns to commit the alleged attack.

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