Buffalo shooting

Police said the alleged shooter, who has since been arrested, was 'racially motivated'

"He ripped off his helmet, dropped his gun, and was tackled by the police." "He was standing there with the gun to his chin. She was a blessing to all of us," former Fire Commissioner Garnell Whitfield told the Buffalo News. He dropped to his knees. One resident, who asked not to be named, said his wife had been into the shop twice earlier that day. He shot four people in the car park outside the shop, three of them fatally.

Three others were wounded in the attack in which 11 of the 13 victims were black. A white teenager was arrested and has been charged with murder.

The Buffalo attack came just one month after another mass shooting on a Brooklyn subway train wounded 10 people. Erie County Sheriff John Garcia pointedly called the shooting a hate crime. He put his rifle to his own neck, but two officers talked him into dropping the gun, Gramaglia said. “This is the worst nightmare that any community can face, and we are hurting and we are seething right now,” Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said at the news conference. A bullet hit the gunman’s bulletproof armor but had no effect, Gramaglia said. The suspected gunman in Saturday's attack on Tops Friendly Market was identified as Payton Gendron, of Conklin, New York, about 320 kilometres southeast of Buffalo.

T. en people have died in what police have claimed was a “racailly motivated attack”. Police said a white 18-year-old man dressed in military gear entered Tops ...

He dropped the gun, took off some of his tactical gear, surrendered at that point. He had a tactical helmet on. He had tactical gear.

An 18-year-old gunman wearing military-style clothing and body armour opened fire with a rifle at the store, which is in a predominantly black ...

“We are hurting and we are seething right now,” he said. And heaven help him in the next world as well.” “I saw the guy go in, army-style, bent over, just shooting at people,” he said. And he was led outside, put in a police car.” “He dropped the gun, took off some of his tactical gear, surrendered at that point. He had a camera that he was livestreaming what he was doing.”

Suspected gunman Payton Grendon, 18, has appeared in court on first-degree murder charges after 10 people were killed at a grocery store in Buffalo, ...

"We cannot let this hateful person divide our community or our country." "She was just going into the store. "I saw him shoot this woman," Crofton told the paper. Saturday's shooting spree was also reminiscent of the attack on a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019, when the killer live-streamed the murders on She was putting groceries into her car. Screenshots of the broadcast were posted on social media, including some that appeared to show the shooter holding a gun and standing over a body in the grocery store. The governor also said she would introduce a previously planned "comprehensive" gun control package on Tuesday to "address further loopholes that exist in our (state) laws". The two others were white. New York Governor Kathy Hochul told a late-evening news conference she was dismayed that the killer managed to live-stream his attack on social media, which she blamed for hosting a "feeding frenzy" of violent extremist ideology. U.S. President Joe Biden decried the shooting as "abhorrent to the very fabric of this nation" in a statement issued late on Saturday. "He looked like he was in the army," she told the newspaper, describing the camouflage-clad assailant. Flynn said the judge also ordered Gendron to remain in custody without bail and to undergo a "forensic examination".

Shoppers in and around a Buffalo, New York, supermarket Saturday detailed being forced to hide behind cars, calling out for help as a gunman killed 10 ...

"This is the worst nightmare that any community can face and we are hurting and we are seething right now as a community," Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said. "He was very heavily armed," the police commissioner said. One woman told WKBW she received a distressing phone call from her "scared, hysterical" 19-year-old granddaughter who was at the supermarket and heard gunshots. "I still don't even believe it happened ... that a person would go into a supermarket full of people," he said. Then he dropped it and took off his bulletproof vest, then got on his hands and knees and put his hands behind his back," Lewis said, describing the moments the suspect was arrested by police. "This was not a White man from Buffalo. This was a White person who was evil, so I don't want to see all White people painted and to have a tension between Black and White because of the individual who should serve his time." "Hate must have no safe harbor." "The same way I don't want to see Black people painted with a broad brush if we have one Black person (do wrong), they say, 'Oh, those Black folks.' So at the end of the day, I don't want to see the same thing happen in our community with Black and White relations," Pridgen said. Speaking to the suspected motive of the shooting, Darius G. Pridgen -- the president of Buffalo's city council and the senior pastor of True Bethel Baptist Church -- told CNN's Pamela Brown he hopes it is understood that race relations in the city do not have to be frayed and that the shooting was the act of an "evil" individual from outside the community. "The depth of pain that families are feeling and that all of us are feeling right now cannot even be explained." "He had tactical gear, he had a tactical helmet on, he had a camera that he was livestreaming what he was doing." Grady Lewis said he was outside the supermarket when he heard seven or eight gunshots, and described seeing a White man "fully prepared, ready to go," dressed in tactical gear spraying gunfire at the entry of the store, which is located in the heart of the city's Black community.

Teenager Payton Gendron is accused of scrawling the n-word on his rifle before carrying out Saturday's racist shooting attack at Tops Friendly store in ...

You will hang," he wrote. "For the disgrace, you have heaped upon the European people and the distress you have caused to European women, you will die." He wrote: "Sadiq Khan, The current mayor of London at the time of writing, an open sign of the disenfranchisement and ethnic replacement of the British people in the British isles. "Finally, I would like to send a message to the perpetrators of these attacks and their families. "What better sign of the white rebirth than the removal of this invader?" Within the sick document, he called for all whites to rise up and kill African Americans and Jews, saying, "We must ensure the existence of our people and a future for white children."

Officials said the suspected gunman traveled several hours from his home in the Southern Tier to carry out the Buffalo attack.

We appreciate the quick response of local law enforcement and are providing all available resources to assist authorities in the ongoing investigation." "There is compelling evidence to believe that this was pre-planned," the congressman said. The shooter "worked his way through the store" firing at others, and in the store's lobby was confronted by Buffalo police. The store's security guard, a retired Buffalo police officer, was among those killed at the scene. None of the shooting victims were identified by police. A retired Buffalo police officer working in the store as a security guard confronted the shooter and shot him. Her cousin hid in a freezer inside the store and was not injured, she said. She retrieved her phone from her car and called her cousin, who was also inside the store when gunfire erupted. "This is the worst nightmare that any community can face," said Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown. "And we are hurting and we are seething right now as a community. "A lot of people got away, thank God." He shot four people in the parking lot, three of whom died at the scene. Eleven of the 13 shooting victims were Black.

Calling the gunman “a white supremacist”, Ms Hochul said he terrorised New York's second-largest city in a "cold-hearted," "military-style execution" while ...

And heaven help him in the next world as well," the governor said. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. The magazines used in the attack are not allowed to be sold in New York, officials said.

AP said they had been told at least 10 had died by law enforcement officials. Picture from the scene of a mass shooting in Buffalo, NY. Pic: AP. Image ...

A law enforcement official on the scene told the paper: "It's like walking onto a horror movie, but everything is real. "He was standing there with the gun to his chin. He added that they saw him drop to his knees. Why does this kid have a gun to his face?" "It sounded like things were falling over." Witnesses have reported hearing dozens of shots being fired.

A massacre at a Buffalo supermarket was the deadliest in the U.S. this year.

Of the 13 people who were shot, 11 were Black and two were white. The Cannes Film Festival begins this week. “Top Gun: Maverick” will premiere 36 years after the original. By then, the police had arrived, and he briefly put a gun to his neck before he began removing tactical gear as a form of surrender and the police tackled him. But the recovery process is extremely painful, as documented in this photo essay. It’s the magazine’s health issue, all about body modifications. He was arrested at the store and pleaded not guilty in a brief court appearance. He went on to stalk victims throughout the store; “bodies were everywhere,” one witness said. Four worked at the Tops grocery. The view is known as “replacement theory” and was once linked to the far-right fringe, but it has become increasingly mainstream. Around 2:30 p.m., as shoppers filled the Tops supermarket, the suspect arrived wearing body armor, tactical gear and a helmet with a video camera attached. A gunman embracing a white supremacist ideology opened fire yesterday afternoon at a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood of Buffalo, killing 10 people and wounding three more.

Described by Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia as “a hero in our eyes,” Aaron Salter Jr. was the security guard on duty when the gunman began his ...

Saturday’s shooting had the same number of fatalities as a shooting by a transit system employee last May at a light-rail facility in San Jose, according to the archive. When police arrived at the store, Gendron put a gun to his neck but was ultimately persuaded to surrender, Gramaglia said. In February, six people were killed in Corsicana, Tex., when a man targeted members of his family. Until then, the deadliest shooting this year took place on April 3 in downtown Sacramento, where six died and a dozen were injured after multiple shooters fired on a stretch of bars and nightclubs. “She could have probably done a number of other things with her life and with her talents, but she chose to use them on us,” Garnell said. “We have to rally as a family around my father and make sure that he’s well cared for,” he said. Salter was inspired to undertake that project during a 2011 spike in gas prices, he said in an interview. After surrendering to police, Gendron was charged with first-degree murder. In a few years, he predicted, scientists and engineers would find that cars could run on water. On the way home, she stopped at Tops Friendly Markets, where she and nine others were fatally shot, authorities said. “She was his angel.” Eleven of the 13 people were Black.

Suspected gunman shot 11 Black and two white victims at a supermarket he broadcast on streaming platform Twitch before surrendering.

Hochul said that the shooter’s gun, an AR-15, was purchased legally in the state. She was a blessing to all of us,” former Fire Commissioner Garnell Whitfield told the Buffalo News. “The justice department is investigating this matter as a hate crime and an act of racially-motivated violent extremism. Community members gathered outside the Tops on Sunday morning for a prayer vigil. A law enforcement official told the Associated Press that investigators were looking into whether he had posted a manifesto online. A bullet hit the gunman’s bulletproof armor but had no effect, Gramaglia said.

Eleven of the 13 victims were Black, and two were white, after an 18-year-old white male opened fire at a supermarket in New York.

She went to Tops to buy groceries, the newspaper reported. Salter shot at the shooter in an effort to stop him, but was fatally wounded, according to WHIO TV. He then entered the supermarket, where a security guard, who had recently retired from the Buffalo police department, tried to stop him.

Payton Gendron, 18, of Conklin, New York, is charged with first-degree murder, after he allegedly drove three hours and gunned down 10 people at a Buffalo ...

He was able to hide in a freezer but he was not able to get to my aunt and does not know where she is. mother was a mother to the motherless. Mayor Byron Brown was at the scene late Saturday afternoon and expected to address the media. 'This is the worst nightmare that any community can face, and we are hurting and we are seething right now,' Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said at a news conference. Gendron, confronted by police in the store's vestibule following the shooting, put a rifle to his neck but was convinced to drop it. Payton traveled from his home in Conklin, New York, to carry out the atrocity. As True Bethel's Darius Pridgen spoke, 'someone rushed in and caused a disturbance, appeared to yell 'put down the gun,' Jon Harris with Buffalo News tweeted. Survivors have since told of how they fled to the supermarket's freezer in terror. Police said Gendron shot, in total, 11 Black people and two white people Saturday in a rampage that the 18-year-old broadcast live before surrendering to authorities. A day before, Dallas police had said they were investigating shootings in the city's Koreatown as hate crimes. Twitch said in a statement that it ended Gendron's transmission 'less than two minutes after the violence started.' The market is located in a predominantly Black neighborhood.

Hate-based crime has been getting worse in recent years, largely cultivated in the cauldron of darkest reaches of the internet.

I think it’s going to be different after this, in terms of the energy and the activity that we see”. We are not a nation of hate. “We are not a nation of haters. I would like to see ending hate speech on the internet, on social media. “I would like to see sensible gun control. The story is, by now, nauseatingly familiar.

Thirteen people in total were shot. Among the victims, 11 were Black. The shooter livestreamed the massacre and allegedly posted an online manifesto that ...

“She always was the center of attention and made the whole room smile and laugh,” her sister told the newspaper. Let’s just say it: That’s true.” Start your Independent Premium subscription today. “We must call it out and condemn it. He is on “suicide watch” and separately from other inmates while jailed, according to law enforcement. She was at the store to buy groceries to make dinner. She said its closure makes the predominantly Black neighborhood a food desert. At least four of the 10 people killed in a mass shooting described as an act of “pure evil” driven by white supremacist hate have been identified, according to reporting from The Buffalo News and The New York Times. He said that while law enforcement and the US Department of Justice is still gathering facts in the case, which is being investigated as a hate crime and “racially motivated act of white supremacy and violent extremism,” he called on Americans to “work together to address the hate that remains a stain on the soul of America.” Vice President Kamala Harris said “our hearts are broken and we grieve for the victims of the horrific act of gun violence in Buffalo and for their families and friends” in a statement the morning after the mass shooting in Buffalo. In remarks on Sunday afternoon, President Joe Biden called on Americans to “work together to address the hate that remains a stain on the soul of America.” President Joe Biden called on Americans to work together to address white supremacism and hate-fuelled violence – a “stain on the soul of America” – following an apparent racist massacre in which an 18-year-old suspected gunman espoused antisemitic and racist views before killing 10 people and injuring at least three others at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. Eleven of the victims are Black.

A teenager accused of killing 10 people and injuring three others in a mass shooting at a US supermarket in the city of Buffalo is on suicide watch, ...

Police said the student was taken into custody under a state mental health law and taken to hospital for evaluation but was released after about a day. She also said that the state's victim services has earmarked a total of $2m for the relatives. Security guard and retired police officer Aaron Salter fired multiple shots but none penetrated the gunman's armour. The victims included a church deacon, a man at the store buying a birthday cake for his grandson, and an 86-year-old woman who had just visited her husband at a nursing home. The victims included a church deacon, a man at the store buying a birthday cake for his grandson, and an 86-year-old woman who had just visited her husband at a nursing home. Letitia James, the attorney general of New York, said the attack was committed by a "sick, demented individual who was fuelled (by) a daily diet of hate".

Shocked residents of Buffalo, New York gathered on Sunday at vigils and church services to mourn 10 people killed in a racially motivated shooting by a ...

He had researched the local demographics while looking for places with a high concentration of Black residents, law enforcement officials said on Sunday. I’m trying to bear witness but it’s just too much. He fired several shots at the assailant before being shot himself, police said. “It’s just too much. Hochul, herself a Buffalo native, described the crime as a “military-style execution” – she said the shooter carried an AR-15 assault weapon – and said racist messaging was “spreading like wildfire”. Shocked residents of Buffalo, New York gathered on Sunday at vigils and church services to mourn 10 people killed in a racially motivated shooting by a white gunman, as United States President Joe Biden said hate remains “a stain on the soul of America”.

The gunman who killed 10 people at a grocery store in Buffalo is thought to have been motivated by racial hatred.

He has entered a plea of not guilty and is scheduled to return to court on May 19. “This was pure evil. In the deadliest school shooting in the US last year, four students were killed and seven other people were wounded after a teenager opened fire at a high school in Oxford, Michigan. It came just a month after a shooting on a Brooklyn subway wounded 10 and just over a year after 10 were killed in a shooting at a Colorado supermarket. A white gunman in military gear shot and killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket in the US state of New York on Saturday, in what authorities called an act of “racially motivated violent extremism”. The gunman who killed 10 people at a grocery store in Buffalo in the US is thought to have been motivated by racial hatred.

Eyewitnesses describe shock and disbelief after a gunman shot 10 people dead in New York state.

"It was like he wanted them to shoot him." He then killed the guard and stalked through the store firing at other people. Afterwards, local residents gathered at the scene. She then ran back around to the back exit, where she found her daughter. Another girl was right there." and then he went in the store and he started shooting again," eyewitness Grady Lewis told reporters. "She was just going into the store. "It's like a nightmare... One man was by his car. Of the 13 people shot, police said 11 were black. She was putting groceries into her car. At the front of the store, she said she saw the gunman, clothed "like he was dressed for the army", shoot another person.

Social platforms have learned to remove violent videos of extremist shootings more quickly over the past few years.

Twitch is popular among video game players and has played a key role in boosting the spread of competitive video gaming, also called “esports.” A company spokesperson said the company has a “zero-tolerance policy” against violence. These links, in turn, are blocked and “blackholed” by the company, meaning they can't be uploaded again. Because there’s a lot of live-streaming which, of course, is 100% legitimate,” she said an interview with The Associated Press. They all want to be the next great white hope that’s going to inspire the next attack,” she said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Twitter said Sunday it was working to remove material related to the shooting that violates its rules. But versions of the Buffalo shooting video still quickly spread to other platforms, and they haven't always disappeared quickly.

Twisted teenager Payton Gendron, 18, scrawled the n-word on his rifle before carrying out a massacre at Tops Friendly store in a Black neighbourhood of ...

"She was the glue. “A lot of people got away, thank God." We can’t even have an open casket because he shot her in the head." She was a blessing to all of us." "But my mom cannot really walk like she used to," he said. She was everything to us. "I thought about it all night and I would like him to be in there for 70, 80 years. 'If I know my sister, she would have said to this guy, c’mon baby, put that gun down. He wrote: "Sadiq Khan, The current mayor of London at the time of writing, an open sign of the disenfranchisement and ethnic of the British people in the British isles. "I ran through the deli and ran out the back door to get away from him," she said. "She would go to the Family Dollar and buy something for everybody. Katherine Massey - described as a "beautiful soul" - was also murdered as she shopped at the Tops store, her sister Barbara told the Buffalo News.

Questions are being asked about how the suspect carried out the attack when he was known to authorities.

Some 40,000 deaths a year involve firearms in America, a figure that includes suicides - and mass shooting events occur frequently. The gunman in Buffalo, like ones before, live-streamed his violent rampage and left a so-called "manifesto" online. you see this on TV, you hear about it on TV... but I never thought I would be one of them," said one. A security guard fired several shots back but the gunman's bulletproof vest stopped one that hit him, police said. Of the 13 people shot, police said 11 were black. "It's like a nightmare...

Attack that killed 10 people at grocery store on Saturday was latest example of attacker espousing the far-right conspiracy theory.

Dr Oware countered that deplatforming was not the answer: “I strongly believe that Tucker Carlson should NOT be kicked off his show or that his rhetoric should be censored in any way. Many disagree on how to handle the rhetoric being increasingly spread by the far right. “The racist anger existed before Carlson. Tucker is just capitalizing on it.” Others on the far-right have flirted with white nationalist figures and rhetoric for even longer. I think we must ask hurt folk why they feel hurt and why they displace their anger onto specific types of populations,” Dr Oware said in an interview. “I know that the left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term ‘replacement,’ if you suggest that the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots, with new people, more obedient voters from the third world.

A white, 18-year-old gunman allegedly carried out a racist attack at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., on Saturday, killing 10 people and injuring three ...

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This once fringe ideology, which was at the heart of Nazism, has gained mainstream traction thanks in part to the likes of Tucker Carlson on Fox News.

Any supporter of White Replacement Theory is a clear enemy of the Jewish People. With its attacks on “Critical Race Theory”, this is a fact that the American political right is deliberately and knowingly trying to erase from our collective consciousness, so they can appeal to it again as a political weapon against liberal democracy. American Jews who support Tucker Carlson and his ilk, that is, others who repeat the White Replacement narrative, are supporters both of anti-Black racism, and antisemitism in its most violent form. White Replacement Theory is deeply ingrained in the worst aspects of American and European history. You will not find Tucker Carlson asserting that the Jews are behind the mass replacement of American whites that he bemoans regularly in what is regularly the most watched cable news show in the United States among adults 25-54. The ideology that motivated Gendron’s mass murder in Buffalo, White Replacement Theory, has a lengthy and blood-soaked 20th century history. Gendron’s manifesto begins in a similar fashion to Tarrant’s, by decrying the “white genocide” that will result from the supposedly low fertility rates of white populations and the high fertility rates of non-white immigrants brought in to “replace” them. The real actors behind White Replacement, according to Gendron, are the Jews, a topic which occupies the subsequent 29 pages of his manifesto. White Replacement Theory was the dominant structuring narrative of Nazi ideology. Hitler also was obsessed by mass immigration, and the threat it posed to “white civilization.” After entering the store, he murdered the store’s guard, and by the end of his killing spree, he had shot 13 people, killing 10 of them. The first listed goal in his manifesto was to “kill as many blacks as possible”.

The names of all the 10 victims killed in the shooting at the Tops supermarket in Buffalo are released by police.

She was a member of "We Are Women Warriors," according to the Buffalo News. She was also a grandmother and missionary who loved "singing, dancing" and being with family, according to the reporter. The 67-year-old was known as "Jitney" because he drove people to and from the Tops store and helped them with their groceries, according to the Buffalo News. He was also a church deacon.

Payton Gendron, 18, was arrested at the scene of the shooting, one of the deadliest racist attacks in recent US history.

In a tweet on Sunday, Mr Khan wrote: "The thoughts and prayers of London are with the people of Buffalo and all the families who have lost loved ones in this dreadful attack. "I'm yelling at people 'please tell the police'. He came out, took the gun and put it to his chin. "What better sign of the white rebirth," it said. In his 180-page manifesto, Gendron said he planned to broadcast the attack to influence others. He died "a hero", said his son, also named Aaron. US President Joe Biden will travel to Buffalo on Tuesday, ahead of his trip to Asia, to meet families bereaved by the shooting.

Details show plotting had likely been in development for months, while signs of trouble had surrounded shooter for some time.

“At that point the suspect put the gun to his own neck. The shooter appeared in court hours later, where he wore a white hospital gown. Aaron Salter, a recently retired Buffalo police department lieutenant, shot at the gunman in an attempt to stop him. Robert Donald, the store’s owner, told The Times that he conducted a background check on the alleged shooter, and that nothing turned up. The state police were dispatched to investigate and he was referred for counseling and a mental health assessment. One year ago, he was the subject of a law enforcement investigation, according to The Buffalo News.

Barbara Massey, 64, said she wants to see alleged Buffalo supermarket gunman Payton Gendron locked up for 80 years - with a black cell mate, for allegedly ...

We can’t even have an open casket because he shot her in the head.’ She was everything to us. She was the glue. 'Someone has taught it to him. He still has milk on his breath.’ ‘She said can you describe Kat and I said, she’s small, she black but she has blue eyes, she’s fair skinned. 'If I know my sister, she would have said to this guy, c’mon baby, put that gun down. She called me back 20 minutes later, it was her.’ ‘I thought about it all night and I would like him to be in there for 70, 80 years. I just kept begging the police, please let me find my sister,’ Massey said. I was still holding out hope. I just hope they don’t give him something to hang himself with.

A white gunman dressed in military-style clothing allegedly killed 10 people at a Buffalo grocery store. Here's what we know about him.

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The shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, is the latest example of something that's been part of U.S. history since the beginning: targeted racial ...

Hajela and Morrison are based in New York City and are members of the AP’s Race and Ethnicity team. “Do we really need (politicians) showing up to our places of worship to help bury our folks and do nothing to stop the carnage?” Hate crime laws are on the books in recognition of that reality. The history of the United States is filled with white supremacist violence, starting from even before its official origins. “It’s déjà vu all over again in Orlando," said Smith, who represents an Orlando district. He knows their dismay that racial bigotry has torn apart the fabric of their families. “As a country, we need to acknowledge that it exists,” Graham said. That’s what makes the world go ’round,” he said. All others, the document said, were “replacers” who should be eliminated by force or terror. The attack was intended to intimidate all non-white, non-Christian people and get them to leave the country, it said. “It’s not right. Ten people died.

Three people were also wounded, with 11 of those caught up in the attack black and two white, officials said.

Mr Goodman was treated and released from Erie County Medical Center. She was a member of the community group We Are Women Warriors, according to the Buffalo News. “She was vibrant and outgoing, could talk to anyone,” she added. Eleven of those attacked were black and two were white, officials said. Ms Whitfield, 86, was the mother of the former Buffalo fire commissioner Garnell Whitfield. On Saturday she had visited her husband in a nursing home and was on the way home when she stopped at Tops, according to the TV station WGRZ. Ms Young, 77, ran a food pantry in the Central Park neighborhood of Buffalo for 25 years, according to a tweet from Madison Carter, a reporter in Buffalo. Young was a grandmother and missionary who loved “singing, dancing” and being with family, according to Carter.

A white, 18-year-old gunman carried out a racist attack at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., on Saturday, killing 10 people and injuring three others.

The gunman who carried out the massacre of 51 people at two New Zealand mosques in 2019 promoted the same racist theory. The suspect had threatened a shooting at his high school last year. He briefly pointed the rifle at his neck before police persuaded him to drop his guns and surrender. The suspected gunman, Payton S. Gendron, allegedly published a 180-page document to the anonymous message board 4chan before carrying out the attack. After the gunman worked his way into the store, the security guard Aaron Salter attempted to the stop the shooter by firing his gun, but the gunman's body armor shielded him from the bullet. Separately, the FBI is investigating the shooting as both a hate crime and racially motivated violent extremism. Some of the victims actively worked to serve their community. The suspect then shot and killed Salter. Four of the victims were store employees. A white, 18-year-old gunman allegedly carried out a racist attack at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., on Saturday, killing 10 people and injuring three others, according to authorities. This is an absolute racist hate crime that will be prosecuted as a hate crime. Of the 13 total shot, 11 were Black, two were white.

Authorities said Payton Gendron, 18, carried out an act of "racially motivated violent extremism" when he opened fire at a Buffalo supermarket on Saturday.

Though shot in the neck, Goodman survived. Dressed in tactical gear, Gendron opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle he had bought legally, but then modified illegally. “Thoughts and prayers are not enough. “The evidence that we have uncovered so far makes no mistake. “He was pushing the carts back to the store and he was one of the first to get hit,” Everhart said. Authorities said Gendron drove to Buffalo from his home several hours away a day before the attack to make a “reconnaissance” on the area.

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According to the author, he began planning the attack in January 2022, and he chose Buffalo as the closest city to his home with the most black residents. Gendron had arrived in Buffalo the day before the shooting and conducted reconnaissance at the Tops store, according to police, and a local shop owner across the street from the establishment said he recognised Gendron from a prior visit to the neighbourhood. Gendron went on to graduate from the school, and attended SUNY Broome Community College in Binghamton, where his classmates described him as a quiet person who rarely attended offline classes and engaged in a variety of odd behaviours, including wearing a hazmat suit to class.

Analysis: Call for social media firms to be held accountable for violent racist views 'spreading like a virus'

The New York governor, Kathy Hochul, told the ABC TV network on Sunday that social media companies needed to be held accountable for violent racist views circulating online. That live stream, however, ran for 17 minutes before Facebook’s moderators brought it down – a response time almost 10 times slower than that of Twitch. The shooter broadcast his intentions in advance – including by preparing a to-do list on the chat platform Discord – which meant some of his followers were ready to download the video as it was being broadcast.