Police and FBI officers are still hunting for a man who left three people dead and two others critically wounded in a shooting spree early on Friday morning which is feared to be racially motivated.

The African-American victims, found within a three-mile radius in north Tulsa, were all shot as they were out walking and are not thought to have known each other.

The series of shootings is unprecedented according to local police, who are desperately hunting for the attacker - believed to be a white man driving a pick-up truck...



...NAACP Tulsa president, the Rev. Warren Blakney Sr., told the Tulsa World someone appeared to be 'targeting black people to shoot.'

'I'm on edge for my people,' Blakney said as he argued that the crime was clearly racially motivated.





'When there are reports that someone systematically shot black folk, what is one left to believe?' he told reporters. 

Four shooting victims were found in yards and the fifth in a street. Police identified those killed as Dannaer Fields, 49, Bobby Clark, 54, and William Allen, 31.

Fields was found wounded about 1am Friday, Clarke was found in a street about an hour later, and Allen was discovered in the yard of a funeral home about 8:30 am.



Minutes after Fields was found, police found two men with gunshot wounds in another yard two blocks away. They were taken to hospitals in critical condition but expected to survive, police said. Their names have not been released.

Police are waiting for the results of forensic tests to determine scientific links between the shootings.

Police Capt. Steve Odom said in his 30 years with the police department, he'd never seen so many shootings happen in such a short time.

Walker said detectives interviewed people Friday afternoon in the neighborhoods where the shootings happened and believe a white man driving a white pickup truck may have been involved

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African-Americans: Police would arrest Zimmerman if Trayvon was white

A new poll on the Trayvon Martin case found that blacks and whites have starkly different views about the role race has played in the story.

According to a USA Today/Gallup poll, nearly three-quarters of African Americans said they thought that George Zimmerman would have been arrested if Trayvon was white, while about a third of whites agreed.

More than half of the white people polled said that race was no factor in the case.

Martin, 17, was shot and killed by a self-appointed neighborhood watch member as he returned to the home of his father's fiancé on Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla. George Zimmerman, the man who admitted to killing him, called the police and told them that Martin looked suspicious prior to the shooting, and said that he shot Martin in self-defense after an altercation.

Zimmerman has not been arrested or charged in the killing, a fact that has outraged protesters around the country. Martin was black. Zimmerman's father is white and his mother is Peruvian.

Gallup also found that the blacks were more likely to have an opinion on Zimmerman's guilt. Seventy-two percent of blacks say Zimmerman is definitely or probably guilty of a crime, while only one percent say he is not. Nonblacks also said that they think Zimmerman is guilty by 32 percent to 7 percent, but well over half of nonblacks say Zimmerman's guilt is unclear from the available evidence. Huffington Post

FACTS & FIGURES

A 2008 USA Today/Gallup poll found most Americans saying that racism was widespread against blacks in the United States. This included a slim majority of whites (51%), a slightly higher 59% of Hispanics, and the vast majority of blacks (78%).

Americans also see racial discrimination as a major factor in four specific problems facing the black community -- lower average education levels for U.S. blacks, lower average income levels for U.S. blacks, lower average life expectancies for blacks, and a higher percentage of blacks serving time in U.S. prisons.

Racism is most widely believed to be a major reason for the higher percentage of blacks in U.S. prisons, and least likely to be seen as a primary factor in blacks' lower average life expectancies. Gallup

In major U.S. cities, out of more than one million people who were stopped and questioned by the police in streets, nearly 90 percent of them were minority males. Among those questioned, 50 percent were African-Americans and 30 percent were Hispanics. Only 10 percent were white people.

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