The deadly shooting in Buffalo, New York, which killed 10 people and wounded three, is being investigated as a federal hate crime and a case of racially motivated violent extremism.
Saturday’s shooting at a supermarket was carried out by a white teenager. All but two of the victims are black.
Here’s what we know so far:
An 18-year-old white man in military uniform and broadcasting live with a helmet camera opened fire on Tops Friendly Market on Saturday afternoon.
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The first call to 911 was at 2.30 pm local time, police said. And patrol officers were on the scene a minute later.
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The gunman broadcast the shooting live in front of a small audience on Twitch for a few minutes before the platform interrupted its broadcast.
Twitch said in a statement that it had stopped broadcasting Gendron “less than two minutes after the violence began.”
The screenshots, which are said to be from the Twitch live broadcast, appear to show a racial epithet scratched on the rifle used in the attack, as well as number 14, possibly a reference to a white race slogan.
According to the police, the attacker started firing in the parking lot, after which he moved to the store. Security guard Aaron Salter fired several shots, but none penetrated the shooter’s armor. The gunman killed Salter and then walked down the aisles, shooting at shoppers.
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When police confronted the shooter in the lobby of the store, he placed his rifle around his neck, but surrendered and dropped the gun with a reservation from staff.
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“They persuaded him, and it was a pretty one-sided battle with the armor he had,” Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramagia told reporters Sunday.
He was then detained by police without further firing. The attacker acted alone, according to police.
“At this point, the investigation shows that he did it himself,” Gramagia said.
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Where did the shooting take place?
The shooting took place on Jefferson Avenue in a predominantly black neighborhood of Buffalo, New York. Tops is the only supermarket in eastern Buffalo. The area is home to a number of black-owned businesses, including the Golden Cup Coffee, the Challenger and the Apollo Theater.
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“We have a lot of things in this small area that should be for us – owned by blacks – including this supermarket,” said Miles Carter, a public activist.
“It was an attack on all of us,” he told Global News.
Attack on all of us. Public activist Miles Carter is the one who shouted at the New York Attorney General earlier. He tells me that political words are not enough. #BuffaloNY pic.twitter.com/wFgx7w2q6x
– CΓ‘π πΎ’ππππ Global News (@ConsumerSOS) May 15, 2022
Who is the suspected shooter?
Police have identified the shooter as Peyton Hendron of Conklin, New York, a small town about 320 kilometers southeast of Buffalo, not far from the Pennsylvania border.
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Officials said the Gendron rifle used in the attack was purchased legally, but the stores he used for ammunition were not allowed to be sold in New York.
A document circulated on the Internet ostensibly outlines Gedron’s racist, anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic beliefs. Among them was the desire to expel all non-European people from the United States. The document seems to be inspired by the gunman who killed 51 people in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019.
Another document circulating online, which appears to have been written by Gendron, outlines a list of tasks for the attack, including cleaning the gun and testing the live broadcast.
A law enforcement official told the Associated Press on Sunday that Gedron had threatened to carry out a shooting last year at Susquehanna Valley High School around the time of graduation. At that time he was 17 years old and was sent for mental health treatment. The police officer was not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation and did so on condition of anonymity.
In a Sunday interview with ABC, Gramaglia said Gendron had been in town “at least the day before”.
“He seems to have come here to cover the area, to do a little reconnaissance in the area before committing his simple, disgusting act,” Gramagia said.
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Investigators believe Hendron specifically studied the population demographics around the supermarket.
Police have not yet released the names of all the victims, but say all but one were over 50, according to police.
Among those killed was Aaron Salter, who worked as a security guard at the store. Salter was also a retired Buffalo officer. Officials say Salter was a community hero who saved lives by fleeing into danger while firing multiple shots at the shooter, hitting him at least once.
“There could have been more victims if it weren’t for his actions,” Gramagia said on Sunday.
Salter cares about the community. He took care of the store, “said local resident Yvette Mack. She remembered him as a person who “let us know if we are right or wrong.”
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Mack walked to the store to play lottery numbers and shop. She said she spoke to Salter shortly before the shooting.
“I played my numbers. He said, “I see you’re playing tricks!” I laughed. And he played his numbers, too. Can you imagine seeing someone and not knowing that they will not return?
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As every other day, 86-year-old Ruth Elizabeth Whitfield was taking groceries from Tops after visiting her husband in a nursing home when she was killed.
Her son, retired Buffalo Fire Commissioner Garnell Whitfield, told The Buffalo News that she is the “mother of mothers” and a blessing to us all. Her strength and devotion to her family can be attributed to her strong religious faith, her son said.
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The Whitfield family has retained nationally known civil rights and personal injury lawyer Ben Crump and judge Terry Connors of Connors LLP and Ken Abarno of DiCello Levitt.
“Yesterday we witnessed the deadliest mass shooting of 2022 by a self-proclaimed white supremacist who aimed to do one thing: kill blacks,” Crump said in a statement to Global News.
“Ruth, a beloved wife, mother and grandmother, was her husband’s main concern and was returning from a visit to a nursing home when this sick, depraved man brutally killed her in a grocery store,” he said.
“We are thoroughly investigating the shooting and the events that led to it. These grieving families deserve to know how a white-hated proponent of hatred managed to commit a deliberate and deliberate act of terrorism against blacks – all while armed with an assault rifle equipped with a high-capacity magazine. This is a very familiar scenario, with the same tragic but preventable end. We will get answers for these families and seek responsibility from those responsible for this tragedy. “
Among those killed was Catherine Massi, who was shopping with her sister, Barbara Massi. Barbara described her as a “beautiful soul.”
Among those killed was 53-year-old Andre McNeill of Auburn, New York. McNeill was in town visiting relatives, picking up a surprise birthday cake for his grandson.
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“He never came out with the cake,” Clarissa Alston-McCutchen said of her cousin. She said this kind of surprise was typical of him. He was “just a loving and caring man.” Dear family. He was always with his family. “
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