Buffalo shooting

Police said multiple people were shot in what they described as a "mass shooting" at a Buffalo supermarket. WKBW. CNN —.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul tweeted, "I am closely monitoring the shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo. We have offered assistance to local officials. The shooter is in custody. The shooting is being investigated as a hate crime Belongia said.

Buffalo police said earlier Saturday afternoon that the alleged shooter was in custody.

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. “The president has been briefed by his Homeland Security advisor on the horrific shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., this afternoon. “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. Associated Press reporters John Wawrow in Buffalo and Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report. “He ripped off his helmet, dropped his gun, and was tackled by the police.” She was in there with her fiance, they separated and went to different aisles,” she said. Police closed off the block, lined by spectators, and yellow police taped surrounded the full parking lot. “Our hearts are with the community and all who have been impacted by this terrible tragedy. “He was standing there with the gun to his chin. Braedyn Kephart and Shane Hill, both 20, pulled into the parking lot just as the shooter was exiting. Officials said 11 of the victims were Black and two are white. He said the gunman then killed the security guard.

BUFFALO, NY (WBFO) – Thirteen people were shot, 10 of them fatally, by a gunman who entered the Tops supermarket on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo Saturday and ...

According to the alleged manifesto, the suspect targeted Blacks, motivated by the belief that he was responding to a campaign to “replace” the White race. So I want to make sure that I have the best charge right now to hold him in custody and get this matter moving forward before I add any other charges on it. His alleged manifesto also expressed hatred toward Jews, and suggests “Arabs,” Asians and other non-white ethnicities do not belong in a “White civilization.” Social media accounts are suggesting the alleged shooter released a manifesto and “to-do” list prior to the attack. The gunman, reported to be a young white male, was in police custody according to law enforcement agencies. The alleged shooter was taken into police custody and was scheduled to be arraigned Saturday evening.

A retired Buffalo police officer who was working as a security guard fired multiple shots at the gunman. The authorities said that the suspect was struck but ...

Then the police tackled him, witnesses told The Buffalo News. He then put the gun to his own neck, said the police commissioner, Joseph A. Gramaglia, at a press conference. He shot shoppers and employees, according to the police, leaving a trail of bodies in the aisles. Shonnell Harris, an operation manager at the Tops, told The Buffalo News that she was stocking shelves when she heard loud noises and saw people running toward the back of the store. A retired Buffalo police officer who was working as a security guard fired multiple shots at the gunman. He was wearing tactical gear and body armor, with a video camera fixed to his helmet.

Details on the number of additional people shot at the Tops Friendly Market and their conditions weren't immediately available. Buffalo police said earlier ...

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. Investigators believe the gunman may have been streaming the shooting through a camera affixed to his helmet, one of the officials said. The suspect was being questioned Saturday evening by the FBI, one of the officials said. It also shows the suspect walking into the supermarket and shooting several other victims inside, the official said. The shooting happened in a predominantly Black neighborhood a few miles north of downtown Buffalo. The suspect was being questioned Saturday evening by the FBI, one of the officials said.

The alleged shooter has been arraigned on first-degree murder charges. Authorities say the attack is being investigated as a racially motivated hate crime ...

Twitch said the stream was taken offline less than 2 minutes after the violence started, and has indefinitely suspended the user from the service. Many people in our community are touched by this in some way." He briefly held a gun to his neck, but police said they talked him into dropping his guns and surrendering. The suspect then shot and killed the security guard. A total of 13 people were shot at the Tops Friendly Market on Saturday afternoon, officials said at a press conference. Eleven of the victims were Black, and two were white, said Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia.

NEW YORK: A heavily armed 18-year-old man shot 10 people dead on Saturday (May 14) at a Buffalo, New York grocery store in a "racially motivated" attack ...

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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.

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.

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.

A gunman motivated by hate and dressed in tactical gear killed 10 people and wounded three others Saturday afternoon at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket,

"We appreciate the quick response of local law enforcement and are providing all available resources to assist authorities in the ongoing investigation." The suspect then continued to walk through the store shooting, he said. The officers talked him into surrendering, Gramaglia said. "So this is painful.” At least two rifles have been recovered from the scene, according to law enforcement sources. A heavily armed man wearing tactical gear went to the store on Jefferson Avenue about 2:30 p.m. and opened fire in the parking lot. A security guard returned fire but because the suspect had on ballistic protection, the rounds didn't appear to penetrate. Details about why they believe the man was motivated by racial hatred were not revealed. Four store employees, including a security guard, were among the victims. "This was pure evil," Erie County Sheriff John Garcia said at a news conference. The NAACP of Buffalo said in a statement, "We are praying for the victims of the senseless act of violence the taken place in our community." The suspect is said to be from a distant part of the state and was live-streaming the shooting, Gramaglia said.

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. The mass shooting was the deadliest in the United States this ...

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.

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.

A teenage gunman, wearing tactical gear and a livestreaming camera, killed 10 people and wounded 3 more in a hate-fueled shooting rampage in Buffalo.

The shooter "worked his way through the store" firing at others, and in the store's lobby was confronted by Buffalo police, police said. A retired Buffalo police officer identified by authorities as Aaron Salter working in the store as a security guard confronted the shooter and shot him. The same group, Wray told a Senate committee last year, were responsible for the most lethal attacks in the past decade. "When I came out here I just (saw) bodies laying in front of the store." "This individual – this white supremacist – who just perpetrated a hate crime on an innocent community, will spend the rest of his days behind bars. "This is in a league of it’s own...a whole new dimension," she said. Her cousin hid in a freezer and was not injured, she said. "A lot of people got away, thank God." The FBI is investigating the shooting as a hate crime and racially-motivated violent extremism. After Gendron entered the store, "he began engaging customers inside," Gramaglia said. Voice Buffalo and other equity advocacy groups organized a vigil near the shooting scene that drew a crowd of hundreds Sunday morning. Eleven of the 13 people who were shot were Black, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said.

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.

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.

Much about the 10 people who were fatally shot, who were not immediately named by the police, was still unknown. But the victims included: Ruth Whitfield, 88: ...

Mr. Jones was her only child, and she had six grandchildren. “She always was the center of attention and made the whole room smile and laugh.” Celestine Chaney, 65: Ms. Chaney was killed during the shooting, her son, Wayne Jones, 48, said. Described as a “hero” by the Buffalo Police Department’s commissioner, Mr. Salter confronted the gunman and exchanged fire with him when he entered the supermarket Saturday afternoon. In recent years, she had taken on caring for her husband, who was in a nursing home. “She was a religious woman who cared deeply for her family,” Cassietta Whitfield said.

The man accused of killing 10 at a Buffalo supermarket on Saturday had made threats against his high school, the police said; a gun dealer who said he sold ...

He shot shoppers and employees, according to the police, leaving a trail of bodies in the aisles. He wrote out a lengthy manifesto that was steeped in the “great replacement” doctrine, which argues that whites are at risk of being replaced by people of color. It unfolded in a largely Black neighborhood in Buffalo, and 11 of the people shot were Black, officials said. Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said on Sunday that the shooting suspect had been brought in for a mental health evaluation last June after making what Mr. Gramaglia said was a generalized threat to a classmate. “He was on the police force for 30 years and nothing like this ever happened,” his son said. Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia declined to share the details of when the suspect purchased the assault rifle used in the shooting, but he said that law enforcement had come up with a timeline. The police said that the suspect, who was identified as Payton Gendron, was apprehended with three weapons: a rifle, a shotgun and the AR-15-style weapon he used to carry out the attack. Described as a “hero” by the Buffalo Police Department’s commissioner, Mr. Salter confronted the gunman and exchanged fire with him when he entered the supermarket Saturday afternoon. “She always was the center of attention and made the whole room smile and laugh.” “Until we are honest about that, and honest about the cultural addiction to hate and the myth of racial superiority, we’ll constantly find ourselves revisiting these crises and asking the same questions,” he said. The gunman targeted the Tops because of its location in a largely Black neighborhood, according to his writings and city officials. The threat was “generalized” and not racial in nature, he said.

Among the dead was security guard Aaron Salter — a retired Buffalo police officer — who fired multiple shots at Gendron, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph ...

“My mother had just gone to see my father, as she does every day, in the nursing home and stopped at the Tops to buy just a few groceries. He looked after the store,” Yvette Mack, who had shopped at Tops earlier Saturday, said of Salter. “He did a good job you know. She was confirmed as a victim later in the day, Brown said. Gendron, confronted by police in the store’s vestibule, put a rifle to his neck but was convinced to drop it. New York State Police said troopers were called to the Conklin school on June 8, 2021, for a report that a 17-year-old student had made threatening statements. But after we pray — after we get up off of our knees — we’ve got to demand change. The market is located in a predominantly Black neighborhood. The Buffalo attack 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. All others, the document said, were “replacers” who should be eliminated by force or terror. I’m trying to bear witness but it’s just too much. The attack was intended to intimidate all non-white, non-Christian people and get them to leave the country, it said. “It’s just too much.

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”.

An 18-year-old man who was arrested after allegedly killing 10 people in a racially motivated attack in Buffalo has been placed on suicide watch, ...

Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers (R), a member of the far-right group the Oath Keepers, appeared to endorse an unevidenced conspiracy theory that the Buffalo shooting was a government operation. Most of the victims of Saturday’s shooting were Black, and the attack appeared to be racially motivated, law enforcement officials said. Gendron is accused of carrying out the attack while wearing a protective vest and armed with an assault rifle and handguns.

This individual came here with the express purpose of taking as many Black lives as he could,” Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said at a news conference Sunday.

“My mother had just gone to see my father, as she does every day, in the nursing home and stopped at the Tops to buy just a few groceries. She was confirmed as a victim later in the day, Brown said. He looked after the store,” Yvette Mack, who had shopped at Tops earlier Saturday, said of Salter. “He did a good job you know. Gendron, confronted by police in the store’s vestibule, put a rifle to his neck but was convinced to drop it. New York State Police said troopers were called to the Conklin school on June 8, 2021, for a report that a 17-year-old student had made threatening statements. But after we pray — after we get up off of our knees — we’ve got to demand change. The market is located in a predominantly Black neighborhood. The Buffalo attack 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. All others, the document said, were “replacers” who should be eliminated by force or terror. I’m trying to bear witness but it’s just too much. The attack was intended to intimidate all non-white, non-Christian people and get them to leave the country, it said. “It’s just too much.

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.

The Buffalo suspect allegedly published a 180-page document online that repeats a series of racist conspiracy theories in an attempt to justify his plan to ...

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Julie Harwell believes her life was saved by a woman who ran toward the gunman and was fatally shot.

“I was just scared for my mom.” It was enough time, Harwell said, for her to make it to the back of the store and hide. “I wasn’t that scared [during the shooting],” Londin said. I want to tell her family thank you.” But the shooting continued, Harwell said, and the gunman — identified by police as 18-year-old Payton Gendron — fired too many rounds to count. Of the 13 people shot, 11 were Black, according to law enforcement officials, who are investigating the shooting as a racially motivated hate crime.

A suspect apparently motivated by a white supremacist agenda shot dead 10 shoppers. Analysis shows that mass shootings – and those at grocery stores – are ...

Our research suggests many strategies to prevent mass shootings – from behavioral threat assessment to restricting access to firearms for high-risk people. But racial hatred appears to be just one of many motivations cited by retail shooters. Our analysis suggests that when it comes to retail shooters, around 13% are driven by racism – so slightly above the average for all mass shooting events. Mass shootings are socially contagious. We also built a comprehensive database of mass public shootings using public data, with the shooters coded on over 200 different variables, including location and racial profile. Mass public shootings in which four or more people are killed have become more frequent, and deadly, in the last decade.

The suspect in Saturday's mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, appeared to be actively involved in online communities devoted to guns, ammunition and ...

Discord did not respond to a request for comment. In the online document, the suspect also referred to the Discord chat platform and a community on it centered on guns and armor called “plate land.” In chat logs archived from the server by the nonprofit media organization Unicorn Riot, a user with the same username and avatar as the account that streamed the shooting on Twitch sought advice about combat gear in the “plate land” community. Brenton Tarrant, the shooter in the mosque attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019, included posting his written plans for the attack to 4chan. The last post was Saturday morning in a subreddit devoted to ammunition. The suspect in Saturday’s mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, appeared to be actively involved in online communities devoted to guns, ammunition and tactical gear, according to social media posts. He appears to have livestreamed parts of the attack on the online platform Twitch.

Friends and family were mourning the loss of 10 people who were killed Saturday in Buffalo, New York. Here's what we know about the victims.

Patterson, 67, was a deacon at a Buffalo church and had gone to a soup kitchen before going to the Tops store, where he often offered to drive people home with their bags. Young of Buffalo, 77, was grocery shopping after grabbing lunch with her sister-in-law when she was shot and killed, AL.com reported. My mother was a mother to the motherless. "Current pursued remedies mainly inspired by mass killings — namely, universal background checks and banning assault weapons — essentially exclude the sources of our city’s gun problems. Whitfield, who was from Buffalo, had four children and eight grandchildren. Her sister, Barbara Massey, stood outside the Tops story for hours dialing Kat's phone in hopes she would pick up. "You ask, he’ll give it. “My mom was the consummate mom. "There needs to be extensive federal action/legislation to address all aspects of the issue," she wrote in the letter. Their ages range from 32 to 86 years old. She was a blessing to all of us. Whitfield, 86, was shopping at the Tops store when she was shot and killed, her son, Garnell W. Whitfield, told The Buffalo News. She was stopping for groceries after visiting her husband at a nursing home.

An expert on the white-power movement and the “great replacement” theory puts the act of terror in context.

They see feminism as a scheme to keep white women out of the home and lower the white birth rate. So it comes up a lot in the manifesto of the Christchurch shooter, who was focussed on immigrants as his victims. But there is a heavy current of anti-Semitism that links the idea of the manipulative élite with Jewish conspirators. It allows an opportunism in selecting enemies so that you can tack to the scapegoat of a particular time and place, but it also follows the central motivating logic, which is to protect the thing on the inside, regardless of the enemy on the outside. When people such as Tucker Carlson try to do the “respectable” version of this, they often say, Oh, we’re worried about illegal immigration, and they pretend that they’re not saying something quite as bad as what they mean. In the past few years, we’ve had a series of mass attacks employing this ideology on different kinds of victim groups: the Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh, the El Paso shooting of Latino folks at a Walmart. The Christchurch shooting targeted Muslim congregations in New Zealand. The Charleston shooting by Dylann Roof targeted African Americans in a church. We see versions of this going all the way back to the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century, the writings of Madison Grant, and things such as “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” All of these are the same set of beliefs packaged with the cultural context at the time. They see residential integration as a scheme to lower the white birth rate. They see, for instance, abortion as a scheme to lower the white birth rate. But it’s really the same ideology as the New World Order conspiracy, the idea of the Zionist occupational government—which is how people talked about this in the nineteen-eighties and early nineties. We can get into the textual background of the term if you want to, but it’s basically a new language for the same set of ideas that have worked to connect many different kinds of social threats into one broadly motivating, violent, and frightening world view for people in the white-power movement and on the militant right. On Saturday, a gunman murdered ten people and wounded three others at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. The suspect, who is eighteen, used a weapon painted with a white-supremacist slogan and live-streamed his attack.

The reported names include: Former Buffalo Police Lt. Aaron Salter; Ruth Whitfield, mother of Buffalo's retired fire commissioner, Garnell W. Whitfield ...

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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...

Gunmen say they are influenced by online screeds and broadcasts of past shootings. Do social media sites have a responsibility to rein in hateful and ...

A company spokeswoman initially said the site might remove some instances of the video or add a sensitive content warning, then later said Twitter would remove all videos related to the attack after The Times asked for clarification. Removing violent content is “like trying to plug your fingers into leaks in a dam,” said Ms. Douek, the researcher. In the wake of the shooting in New Zealand, social platforms and countries around the world joined an initiative called the Christchurch Call to Action and agreed to work closely to combat terrorism and violent extremism content. Asked why some users were notified that posts with links to the video did not violate its standards, the spokesman did not have an answer. Social media and content moderation experts said Twitch’s quick response was the best that could reasonably be expected. Many of the gunmen in the shootings have written that they developed their racist and antisemitic beliefs trawling online forums like Reddit and 4chan, and were spurred on by watching other shooters stream their attacks live. Platforms like Facebook, Twitch and Twitter have made strides in recent years, the experts said, in removing violent content and videos faster. By Sunday, links to recordings of the video had circulated widely on other social platforms. Questions about the responsibilities of social media sites are part of a broader debate over how aggressively platforms should moderate their content. In a manifesto posted online, Payton S. Gendron, the 18-year-old whom the authorities identified as the shooter, wrote that he had been inspired by the Christchurch gunman and others. But two minutes was enough time for the video to be shared elsewhere. In March 2019, before a gunman murdered 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, he went live on Facebook to broadcast his attack.

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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The man accused of killing 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket was sent for a psychiatric evaluation when he was still in high school but soon fell off ...

Mr. Donald said he did a background check on Mr. Gendron before he sold him the gun. “He didn’t stand out, because if he did, I would have never sold him the gun,” Mr. Donald said. Law enforcement officials said he plotted the attack over several months and posted a 180-page manifesto online explaining why he committed the shootings and describing his meticulous preparations. The authorities then try to make a reasoned call. Ms. Williams said the last time she had seen Mr. Gendron was at graduation. Some recalled watching Mr. Gendron play basketball in the driveway with his two brothers, and some even had attended his front-yard graduation party last year. The law is not used often. “I knew he had an interest in guns, but where we grew up that wasn’t uncommon. Ms. Williams, 19, said Mr. Gendron favored online coursework even as his classmates returned to campus. He claimed to be joking, the official said. But two officers persuaded him to drop his weapon and surrender. There was little movement at the light-blue, two-story house with black shutters and neatly trimmed shrubs, save for agents pacing the driveway.

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.

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.

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 suspect allegedly wrote a 180-page document filled with hateful rants about race and ties to the conspiracy theory, "Great Replacement".

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More information is coming to light about the victims of the Buffalo, New York, supermarket shooting, including how victims' families found out about the ...

"He was my best friend. Heyward Patterson was known as "Jitney", because he drove people to and from the Tops grocery store and helped them with their groceries, according to the Buffalo News. One survivor told a local news station that he and his 8-year-old daughter heard the gunshots and hid in the back of a milk fridge. Just to see my dad laying there like that. Three others were wounded. It just hurt me so much.

Twitch says it managed to take down the live stream of the weekend mass shooting in Buffalo within two minutes after it started. However, videos of the ...

Twitch says it managed to take down the live stream of the weekend mass shooting in Buffalo within two minutes after it started. Gendron pleaded not guilty to murder in the first degree. "This spreads like a virus," Hochul said, per the New York Times. Twitch confirmed to Axios that it removed the stream less than two minutes after the violence started. The FBI is investigating the mass shooting that left 10 people dead in a Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York, as a hate crime and a case of "racially motivated violent extremism," said Stephen Belongia, the special agent in charge of the FBI Buffalo field office. The big picture: The FBI is investigating the shooting as a hate crime and a case of racially motivated violent extremism.

Some see attack's roots in deep-rooted prejudice against Black community which still echoes through everyday life.

“And then we have this 18-year-old coming in here and shooting all these people, and that goes to show what he was taught at home, and what he was taught to believe, and what his parents instilled in him. Then there is the issue of gentrification, which has been nibbling at the edge of neighborhood with the displacement and disruption that the process involves. And then there’s the question of the supermarket, the only Black-run grocery of its kind in that Buffalo neighborhood. Some saw the roots of the violence against the Black community in a profound mis-telling of history in America and a deep-rooted prejudice against it that was still echoing on through everyday existence. “There’s a place for anger, and for peace and calm. On this side of the supermarket, anger was palpable.

Thirteen people were shot -- 10 fatally -- at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket Saturday in a massacre authorities believe was racially motivated.

"And if the person had little or no money, he would still give them a ride," Clark said. He enjoyed telling jokes, singing at his church and always "dressed to impress," Clark said. "He is recovering well. "I knew something was wrong. "We're outraged," she said. "She was innocent. "She was the person who always put our family reunion together, she was an avid baker ... mother of two beautiful children." "She was just a lover. And it's -- there's no words to describe it." Buffalo, my hometown, is the City of Good Neighbors and New York State will be good neighbors for them." And I'm afraid that she's one of the victims of this shooting," Brown recalled Garnell Whitfield saying. And her car is still in the parking lot.

The 18-year-old man who allegedly shot and killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket Saturday afternoon was motivated by hate, authorities said.

The suspect shot eight more people in the store, six of whom died, the release said. This is an active investigation and additional charges may be filed," Flynn said in a statement. The person is seen in the rearview mirror wearing a helmet and is heard saying, "Just got to go for it," before he pulls into the front of the store. A spokesperson for Twitch said the company removed the livestream less than two minutes after the violence started. In his news release, Flynn said the suspect shot four people outside of the grocery store, three fatally. Gendron is set to return to court on the morning of May 19 for a felony hearing, the release said.

On Sunday, police identified them as three of the 10 victims killed during the massacre.

Last May, after a local official lost a family member to gun violence, Katherine “Kat” Massey submitted a letter to the Buffalo News calling for better federal oversight of firearms. We have seen how they can impact individuals who are on the pathway to violence.” He is accused of traveling some 200 miles from his home in Conklin, N.Y., to a busy Buffalo grocery store on Saturday afternoon and opening fire on shoppers and others. On Sunday, President Biden called the mass shooting a “racially motivated act of white supremacy and violent extremism.” “You could hear how close he was because you could literally hear the sound of bullets hitting stuff and coming out of his gun.” Bridges sprung to action. You could hear bullets hitting one of everything in that front” of the store, he said. Authorities have named Payton Gendron, 18, as the shooting suspect, saying that he traveled to Buffalo from his home in Conklin, N.Y., and attacked a busy Tops Friendly Markets store in a predominantly Black neighborhood. Gramaglia did not elaborate on how police learned about what he described as plans to continue the attack elsewhere. “And possibly even go to another store location.” In the diatribe, he allegedly identifies as a white supremacist and a terrorist. Payton Gendron of Conklin, N.Y., has been charged with and pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.

Buffalo police have released the identities of the victims, among them a security guard hailed as a "hero" for trying to stop the gunman at the Tops Friendly ...

After encountering and shooting Salter, working in the store as a security guard, the gunman continued shooting until he was confronted by Buffalo police, Gramaglia said. The suspect was wearing a camera and livestreaming. The document espoused the belief that the U.S. belongs only to white people and all others should be eradicated by force or terror, which was the purpose of the attack. Gendron entered the store and continued his attack, police said. Gendron, armed with an assault-style rifle and arrived at the store around 2:30 p.m. Saturday and immediately shot four people in the parking lot, Gramaglia said. Police said the student was taken into custody under a state mental health law and taken to a hospital for an evaluation. The gunman returned fire and fatally shot Salter. Everybody comes back to the community." He entered the store that evening, but he appeared to be bothering customers so she asked him to leave, which he did, Teague said. ... I (saw) all the other bodies on the ground," she said. He had camper bag on his back and was dressed in the same camouflage he wore Saturday, she said. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, took aim at Republican leaders two days of the massacre in Buffalo, accusing them of enabling racism.

Katherine "Kat" Massey, 72, wrote a letter to the editor in the Buffalo News about gun violence about a year before she was killed in the mass shooting.

“Illegal handguns, via out of state gun trafficking, are the primary culprits.” The article opened with a chilling description of people wailing in grief for “their loved ones — infants to grandparents — lost in the rampage of gun murders.” Last May, after a local official lost a family member to gun violence, Katherine “Kat” Massey submitted a letter to the Buffalo News calling for better federal oversight of firearms. Massey had been concerned about gun violence for years, though she focused more on weapons trafficking on the streets. “It’s the darkest, coldest and most uninviting of all the stations,” she wrote. In the interim years, she wrote biting critiques of local officials and spoke out about education issues.

Using a GoPro camera attached to a helmet, the shooter streamed live on the site Twitch for two minutes before the stream was taken down.

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The white supremacist suspect in Buffalo is 18 years old. Some news organizations and commentators have called him a "teenager" and "child" rather than a ...

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