The first time The Boston Globe wrote about Nathan Allen, less than a year ago, it was a love story , describing his perfectly executed wedding proposal and a marriage set against the backdrop of a killer pandemic.

On Sunday, the Globe wrote about him a second time: Allen allegedly executed two Black people, in the words of the Suffolk County district attorney, in what was being investigated as a hate crime, before being gunned down by police.

Allen died Saturday after exchanging gunfire with a Winthrop police sergeant who had responded to the chaotic scene, which unfolded in front of terrified residents, including children, the Globe reported .

Rachel Rollins, the district attorney, announced investigators had found troubling white supremacist rhetoric handwritten by Allen. This individual wrote about the superiority of the white race, she said in a statement. About whites being apex predators. He drew swastikas.