Man convicted of killing 3 people in racially motivated Wilkinsburg shooting dies in prison
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Ronald Taylor, the man convicted of killing three people in a racially motivated shooting in Wilkinsburg has died.
Taylor had been on death row at a state prison in eastern Pennsylvania. He died of natural causes.
In 2000, Taylor shot a maintenance worker at his Wilkinsburg apartment building, shot and killed a former priest at a local Burger King, and shot multiple times into a van at a nearby McDonald's. He then shot the manager inside the McDonald's and shot and killed a Pitt student in the drive-thru line.
All of Taylor's victims were white.
When investigators searched Taylor's apartment, they found a statement about his hatred of White people, Jews, police, and others.
He was sentenced to death in 2002.
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