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2022-11-11 17:22:02 UTC
The Democrat Party salutes one of it's heroes.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) A white 18-year-old wearing military gearand livestreaming with a helmet camera opened fire with a rifle
at a supermarket in Buffalo, killing 10 people and wounding
three others Saturday in what authorities described as racially
motivated violent extremism.
Police said he shot 11 Black and two white victims before
surrendering to authorities in a rampage he broadcast live on
the streaming platform Twitch.
Later, he appeared before a judge in a paper medical gown and
was arraigned on a murder charge.
It is my sincere hope that this individual, this white
supremacist who just perpetrated a hate crime on an innocent
community, will spend the rest of his days behind bars. And
heaven help him in the next world as well, said Gov. Kathy
Hochul, speaking near the scene of the attack.
The massacre sent shockwaves through an unsettled nation gripped
with racial tensions, gun violence and a spate of hate crimes.
In the day prior to the shooting, Dallas police said they were
investigating a series of shootings in Koreatown as hate crimes.
The Buffalo attack came just one month after another mass
shooting on a Brooklyn subway train wounded 10 people.
The suspected gunman in Saturdays attack on Tops Friendly
Market was identified as Payton Gendron, of Conklin, New York,
about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Buffalo.
It wasnt immediately clear why Payton had traveled to Buffalo
and that particular grocery store. A clip apparently from his
Twitch feed, posted on social media, showed Gendron arriving at
the supermarket in his car.
The gunman shot four people outside the store, three fatally,
said Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia. Inside the
store, security guard Aaron Salter, a retired Buffalo police
officer, fired multiple shots. A bullet hit the gunmans
bulletproof armor but had no effect, Gramaglia said.
The gunman then killed the guard, the commissioner said, then
stalked through the store shooting other victims.
Police entered the store and confronted the gunman in the
vestibule. 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. The depth of pain that
families are feeling and that all of us are feeling right now
cannot even be explained.
Twitch said in a statement that it ended Gendrons transmission
less than two minutes after the violence started.
A law enforcement official told The Associated Press that
investigators were looking into whether he had posted a
manifesto online. The official was not permitted to speak
publicly on the matter and did so on the condition of anonymity.
Buffalo police declined to comment on the document, circulated
widely online, that purports to outline the attackers racist,
anti-immigrant and antisemitic beliefs, including a desire to
drive all people not of European descent from the U.S. It said
he drew inspiration the man who killed 51 people at two mosques
in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019.
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