Watch live: Vigil held for the victims of deadly Jacksonville shooting

Watch live as a vigil is held for the victims of the deadly shooting in Jacksonville, Florida.

The vigil is being held after two men and a woman were killed, in a racially motivated shooting in Jacksonville on Saturday, 26 August.

The gunman was identified as 21-year-old Ryan Palmeter by Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office on Sunday, 27 August,

The fatal shooting took place at a Dollar General store near the historically-Black Edward Waters University.

The attacker was initially seen near the library on the campus but security guards tried to take him into custody and he escaped.

Police said the gunman, a white male in his twenties, “hated Black people” and described the incident as a racially-motivated attack against Black people by a gunman carrying a weapon decorated with swastikas.

Jacksonville mayor Donna Deegan, councilwoman Ju’Coby Pittman and Sheriff T.K.Waters are participating in the vigil.