June 17, 2015 news report:
This is reported on Wednesday, and the politician quoted is shot on Thursday? Odd coincidence.
My $0.02 bet would be on internecine politics.
if it was a hit on the state senator someone knew where to find him and how to cloud the investigation by making his assassination look like an emotion-laden racial massacre
motive already imputed and reported as a hate crime
Very good catch!
Nachum: a data point which might support the theory?