Buffalo

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.

A retired police officer who was killed in the Buffalo shooting Saturday is being praised as a “hero” by the city's police.

I don’t know what other words to describe it," Buffalo Police Benevolent Association President John Evans said, according to the local outlet. "I had the pleasure of knowing him, great guy, well respected, well-liked. Gendron then fatally shot Salter.

A teenage gunman wearing military gear and livestreaming with a helmet camera opened fire with a rifle at a Buffalo supermarket in what authorities ...

He will continue to receive updates throughout the evening and tomorrow as further information develops," Jean-Pierre said. "Our hearts are with the community and all who have been impacted by this terrible tragedy. In a tweet, Sharpton said "leaders of all these communities should stand together on this!" "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. He dropped the gun, took off some of his tactical gear, surrendered at that point. He said Gendron then killed the security guard.

In the 1990s, Republicans spread fear over people of color "replacing" white people in California. It's tenet of white supremacy we must confront.

Political rhetoric and paranoia over a supposed “replacement” was the backlash to that diversity and the accompanying push for inclusiveness. Of course, the real origin of the “great replacement” theory is much older and inextricably linked to antisemitism, in that white supremacists blame Jews for non-white immigration. “Diversity is not a strength,” Gendron wrote, according to snippets of the manifesto that authorities say he uploaded and are now floating around online. I’ve set foot in many a Tops Friendly Markets in my life. He is an adherent of the so-called “great replacement” theory. What’s clear is we can’t keep treating acts of white supremacy as one-off crimes committed by supposed lone wolves suffering from mental health problems. Unsurprisingly, Republicans are more likely than Democrats to share these views, according to the poll. We’ve seen what happens when we allow such things to happen. And yet, it never stops — even here. Alongside racist, anti-immigrant rantings, the manifesto laid out how he planned to kill as many Black people as possible, authorities said. That’s when Republicans, desperate to hold on to political power, were spreading fear and paranoia about millions of Mexican immigrants wanting — how dare them! The suspect, an 18-year-old white man from Conklin, N.Y., is in custody.

Police said 18-year-old Payton Gendron opened fire at a Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York, killing at least 10 people.

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. "Any act of domestic terrorism, including an act perpetrated in the name of a repugnant white nationalist ideology, is antithetical to everything we stand for in America." "He ripped off his helmet, dropped his gun, and was tackled by the police." "He was standing there with the gun to his chin. 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. She was a blessing to all of us," former Fire Commissioner Garnell Whitfield told the Buffalo News. In the day prior to the shooting, Dallas police said they were investigating a series of shootings in Koreatown as hate crimes. "Any act of domestic terrorism, including an act perpetrated in the name of a repugnant white nationalist ideology, is antithetical to everything we stand for in America." "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. In the day prior to the shooting, Dallas police said they were investigating a series of shootings in Koreatown as hate crimes.

Vigils are planned for Sunday to remember the victims, including a security guard who died trying to stop the shooting.

It unfolded in a largely Black neighborhood in Buffalo, and 11 of the people shot were Black, officials said. Mr. Gendron wrote that he was inspired by the perpetrators of other white supremacist acts of violence, naming Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black parishioners in South Carolina in 2015, among other gunmen. And he had carefully studied the layout of the grocery store, writing that he would shoot a security guard near the entrance before walking through aisles and firing upon Black shoppers, shooting them twice in the chest when he could. 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. The Anti-Defamation League has said it was commonly used in Nazi Germany, and has now been adopted by white supremacists and neo-Nazis. “I don’t think anyone here in the city of Buffalo thought that something like this could ever happen, would ever happen.” Ten people were killed and three others wounded; 11 of the shooting victims were Black. The police have yet to identify victims. He then put the gun to his own neck, said the police commissioner, Joseph A. Gramaglia, at a news conference. Shortly after Mr. Gendron was captured, a manifesto believed to have been posted online by the gunman emerged, riddled with racist, anti-immigrant views that claimed white Americans were at risk of being replaced by people of color. And his preferred victims seemed clear as well: All told, 11 of the people shot were Black and two were white, the authorities said. His manifesto, which he posted online shortly before the killings, contained old strains of white supremacy and xenophobia.

New York Giants GM Joe Schoen and head coach Brian Daboll have released a joint statement on Saturday's mass shooting in Buffalo.

On behalf of the Giants organization and those of us who come from Buffalo, our hearts go out to the victims and their families and to the entire Buffalo community.” “For us and several members of our staff, Buffalo is our hometown or our adopted home. He shot 13, killing 10 while allegedly live-streaming the crime.

Authorities say the suspect who fatally shot 10 people and injured three others at a Buffalo supermarket Saturday traveled from another New York county ...

Four of the people shot were store employees, he said. When police arrived, the suspect put his gun to his neck but later dropped the gun and took off some of his gear, he added. "He was very heavily armed," the commissioner said. A portion of the document is written in question-and-answer form. A security guard inside the store who was a retired Buffalo police officer shot the suspect. "The shooter traveled hours from outside this community to perpetrate this crime on the people of Buffalo, a day when people were enjoying the sunshine, enjoying family, enjoying friends," Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said at a Saturday evening news conference. "You have now a White ... assailant in a (majority) Black community. Three of those people died while another is expected to survive, Gramaglia said. Why did he choose this market?" Gendron pleaded not guilty to the charge. Two victims were White, Gramaglia said. People's lives being snuffed out in an instant for no reason."

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.

The shooting took place on Saturday afternoon, when a gunman opened fire after entering a super market.

Police said the shooter, who is now in custody, has been charged with murder.

Speaking Saturday night, she called the suspect a white supremacist and said the shooting was an "act of terrorism." In 2020, the FBI elevated its assessment of the threat posed by racially-motivated violent extremists in the U.S. to a "national threat priority," on par with the threat level posed to the country by foreign terrorist organizations. "We appreciate the quick response of local law enforcement and are providing all available resources to assist authorities in the ongoing investigation." "Hate and racism have no place in America," he said in a statement. FBI director Christopher Wray told Congress in November 2019 that a majority of such attacks are "fueled by some type of white supremacy." "She's sitting in a hospital waiting room, because her beautiful, extraordinary son was shot while he was simply doing his job." The suspect eventually returned to the front of the store and encountered police, Gramaglia said. The suspect was "very heavily armed" and had a tactical helmet and gear, Gramaglia said. Erie County District Attorney John Flynn said the suspect, Payton Gendron, has been arraigned on a charge of murder in the first degree, the most severe murder charge under New York law. A law enforcement source told CBS News that the suspect allegedly yelled racial slurs during the shooting. Once he walked inside, he encountered a "beloved" retired Buffalo police officer working in the store as a security guard. Police said he also had a camera and was live-streaming the shooting.

A white 18-year-old wearing military gear and livestreaming with a helmet camera opened fire with a rifle at a supermarket in Buffalo, killing 10 people and ...

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. “Any act of domestic terrorism, including an act perpetrated in the name of a repugnant white nationalist ideology, is antithetical to everything we stand for in America.” Investigators have not released any information about why they believe the man charged in that attack targeted the supermarket. In the day prior to the shooting, Dallas police said they were investigating a series of shootings in Koreatown as hate crimes. “He ripped off his helmet, dropped his gun, and was tackled by the police.” “He was standing there with the gun to his chin. “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. She was a blessing to all of us,” former Fire Commissioner Garnell Whitfield told the Buffalo News. A law enforcement official told The Associated Press that investigators were looking into whether he had posted a manifesto online. He put his rifle to his own neck, but two officers talked him into dropping the gun, Gramaglia said. “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. The massacre sent shockwaves through an unsettled nation gripped with racial tensions, gun violence and a spate of hate crimes.

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.

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating Saturday's mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket as a hate crime and an act of racially motivated violent ...

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.

As we work to process this incident, our attention turns to the 10 victims. We know one of them was retired Buffalo Police Officer Aaron Salter, ...

Many are looking to each other for comfort. The Buffalo community quickly set up this memorial outside of the store Saturday night, in honor of those lives lost. We know one of them was retired Buffalo Police Officer Aaron Salter, who was working as a security guard at the Tops grocery store.

Ten people were killed and three wounded after a racist gunman opened fire at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York on Saturday. The gunman, Payton Gendron, ...

“A racially motivated hate crime is abhorrent to the very fabric of this nation,” President Joe Biden said in a statement on Saturday night. On Sunday, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said that the gunman had been in Buffalo — which is a three-hour drive from where he lived — for at least a day prior to the shooting. Police said Salter was armed and shot the gunman in an attempt to stop the rampage, but the bullet was stopped by his body armor, and he then killed Salter. Governor Hochul, a Buffalo native who flew to the city from Albany after the attack, said at a Saturday night press conference that “there is no depth to my outrage” over the attack. The three people who were wounded were taken to Erie County Medical Center; as of Saturday night, one had been released and the other two were in stable condition. Zaire Goodman, 20, was one of the people wounded in the attack. [The manifesto] was riddled with racist, anti-immigrant views that claimed white Americans were at risk of being replaced by people of color, an ideology known as the“great replacement” theory. A store employee who was able to run and escape through the supermarket’s back exit told the Buffalo News that she thought she heard as many as 70 shots. Of the 13 people killed or wounded in the attack, 11 were Black and two were white. Officers then convinced him to drop the weapon, after which he was tackled by police and taken into custody. The gunman then went inside the store and continued the massacre. An armed security guard fired on the shooter, but the bullet was stopped by Gendron’s body armor, and the gunman shot and killed the guard.

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.

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 Buffalo supermarket shooting suspect threatened a shooting at his high school and was sent for mental health treatment, an official says.

“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.

Church services and prayer vigils are planned throughout the day in Buffalo on Sunday, in response to a teenage gunman shooting 13 people, 10 fatally, at a Tops ...

"Try to be better for ourselves and try to fix this scar in our city." "Tonight, we grieve for the families of ten people whose lives were senselessly taken and everyone who is suffering the physical and emotional wounds of this horrific shooting. A retired Buffalo police officer working in the store as a security guard confronted the shooter and shot him. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims at this difficult time.” This is not just a shopping center but its an area where a lot of people knew each other and a lot of people are close to each other." We are working to find alternatives for our customers in this community while the store is closed and will provide updates in the near future." "A lot of people know each other in this community, said Michael Ray of Buffalo, who lives about a mile from the Tops store where he's also a regular customer. The Erie County-based grocery store chain operates more than 150 grocery stores, most of which are in New York. The Jefferson Avenue store is one of seven Tops store located in Buffalo, according to the company's website. Hundreds of people gathered near the store Sunday morning for a prayer vigil. "Too much hurt is in our community," Blue said. "This is in a league of it’s own...a whole new dimension," she said. "Lord forgive the anger in my heart right now, I was raised to love and respect and care, referenced Psalm 34," she 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.

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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Authorities in Buffalo say the alleged gunman had threatened a shooting at his school in 2021. He was then sent for a mental health evaluation that lasted a ...

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Worshippers impacted by the shooting at a Buffalo supermarket pray at True Bethel Baptist Church on Sunday, May 15, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Joshua ...

“And I’m thinking about the families who won’t welcome a loved one home tonight.” I wouldn’t have been able to do it without her,” Whitfield said. He attributed her strength and commitment to family to her strong religious faith. The bullet didn't pierce, and Salter was shot and killed. BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Aaron Salter was a beloved community member and security guard who knew the shoppers of Tops Friendly Market by name. “I was playing my numbers.

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.

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.

Metro Detroiters are among those trying to make sense of the latest mass shooting in the country, one allegedly stoked by racial hatred.

"The point of praying is the hope for something better. If anything, I feel rage and compassion for the people in Buffalo." Government officials are leaving them "high and dry" in terms of resources for daily living, he said. Williams said NAN has offered to pay for the funerals of the victims. ... "Make no mistake: this was an attack on the Black community. How did no one stop this??"

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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Ten were killed and three injured when a gunman fired on patrons at a grocery story on Saturday.

“We have to rally as a family around my father and make sure that he’s well cared for,” he said. “The indoctrination of a boy to kill people that don’t look like him happened around his dinner table and in his locker room,” Brown said. That was my sister, anyone she could help,” said Barbara Massey. Barbara broke down as she described her sister renting a costume for an educational school event to become “Ms. Broccoli” — “for children to learn to eat right.” It’s shocking that someone from here did something like that,” said Aiva Gendron, 17, who said she was not related to the shooter. “She was his angel.” For the past eight years, after he moved to the facility, Ruth’s days had been spent with him; she would cut his hair, iron his clothes, dress him and shave him. “A lone gunman armed with weapons of war and [a] hate-filled soul shot and killed 10 innocent people in cold blood at a grocery store on Saturday afternoon,” Biden said. Officials said the gunman apparently wrote a racial slur on one of his weapons, as well as a coded reference to a slogan popular among white supremacists. Massey, the civil rights activist, was extremely close to her two remaining siblings, even living on the same street as them. There was Pearl Young, 77, who fed the hungry and was a “faithful member” of the Church of God in Christ, her pastor said in a tweet. And there was Katherine “Kat” Massey, 72, a civil rights and education activist. The teen, police were told, had made comments that prompted concerns he might be planning to shoot people around the time of his high school graduation, according to law enforcement officials.

Northern Ocean County was mentioned in a 180-page document reportedly connected to suspected shooter who killed 10 people in Buffalo, New York.

The county's different houses of worship are one such priority, especially as tensions mount in response to abortion rights, the sheriff said. "I have confidence in both our police department and the sheriff's officers. She has worked for the Press for more than a decade. "We're always on guard for anything in a town like this," he said. "We will defend and protect all our residents," he said. "We reached out to those communities earlier today, and are working with our partners, departments and chiefs," he said.

Irving is a former military police officer. KSAT 12 spoke with him just as he was leaving Sunday service on the East Side. “This is supposed to be the United ...

This is that time for communities of color, every color to come together,” Petty said. And this is why we have to bring mental health to schools,” Petty said. What are we coming to?” Herman Irving said.

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.

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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CONKLIN, N.Y. — By his own account, the suspected Buffalo supermarket gunman became a racist killer while bored online. According to a lengthy screed ...

Police in El Paso say that man confessed to the shooting and said he was targeting “Mexicans,” and officials believe he wrote an online statement ranting about a “Hispanic invasion of Texas.” In the lengthy written account authorities believe he wrote before the attack, Gendron allegedly claimed that he planned to plead guilty in the hopes of drawing more attention to his white supremacist cause. Besides the lengthy written record, authorities said he live-streamed the killing on social media, so that others could watch. “The answers to the most important questions aren’t in Buffalo, they’re 200 miles away in Conklin,” said Peter Ahearn, former head of the FBI’s Buffalo field office. Investigators continue to examine the document, but they believe Gendron wrote it, according to people familiar with the investigation that includes local, state and federal law enforcement agencies. “The state police did their job to the fullest they could at that time,” he said.

This weekend's massacre in Buffalo is the most terrifying proof yet of a grave threat from a wave of White supremacist terrorism -- a seething, ...

The existential feud between liberal and conservative visions of the country is taking place in a febrile atmosphere deliberately fomented by Trump for his own political gain. These theories that result in the radicalization of a young person sitting in their house is deeply scary and something that has to be dealt with." If the final ruling does gut the nationwide right to an abortion and the issue is sent back to the states, the cultural divisions between red and blue states and cities and rural areas will ensure it's a fight that rages for decades. , left many more exhausted and tore new political divides over vaccines and masking in a nation that seems to be splitting into conservative and liberal tribes. For instance, what level of culpability is there for conservative media networks that advance inflammatory material in primetime like the "Great Replacement Theory," which alleges that there is an organized plot to replace White Americans with Black, Hispanic and Jewish voters? The 2015 massacre of worshippers at a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, the 2018 mass shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, and the 2019 killings at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, were all also motivated by racial hate.

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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A 20-year-old employee who was wounded in the Buffalo mass shooting survived a bullet that pierced his neck while he was collecting shopping carts in the ...

This happened to him and now he’s done with it.” He has since been discharged and is recovering at home. A 20-year-old employee who was wounded in the mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket survived a bullet that pierced his neck while he was collecting shopping carts in the parking lot, his family said.

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.

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

The expansion of an iron ore mine in the Arctic that would have increased shipping and led to the “complete extirpation of narwhal” from the region has been blocked. “And that’s hard to say for someone who lost their best friend, their soul mate, and the love of their life. Kenton Cool from Gloucestershire reached the top of the mountain in Nepal early yesterday morning, according to a post on his Instagram page. The perennial question about Cannes, that millionaire’s playground on the Côte d’Azur, is whether it is a creative response to the woes of the world or a means of laundering its worst excesses? It provides the perfect excuse to rewind through the event’s past, celebrating its history as a home for provocation. This year marks the festival’s 75th edition, a birthday of sorts. Thebronze statue of the controversial former UK prime ministerwas, without ceremony, placed on a 10ft high plinth to make it more difficult for protesters to inflict any damage. What is the US doing to help? It’s massive in terms of contraception, in vitro fertilization, a woman’s right to decide.” One year ago, he was the subject of a law enforcement investigation, according to the Buffalo News. “This is a place where freedom and the kitchen table, issues of America’s families, come together. Officials have said that the shooter purchased his gun legally in New York. He did not purchase the high-capacity magazine in this state, they 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, N.Y. — The white gunman accused of committing a racist massacre at a Buffalo supermarket made threatening comments that brought police to his high ...

At one point, he trains his weapon on a white person cowering behind a checkout counter, but says “Sorry!” and doesn’t shoot. Gendron surrendered to police who confronted him in the supermarket’s vestibule. Gendron had threatened to carry out a shooting at Susquehanna Valley High School in Conklin around graduation, a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity said. It is unclear whether officials could have invoked the “red flag” regulation after the high school incident. Authorities said they were investigating the attack on predominantly Black shoppers and workers at the Tops Friendly Market as a potential federal hate crime or act of domestic terrorism. Relatives didn’t respond to messages.

Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said suspect Payton Gendron, 18, planned to drive down Jefferson Avenue “looking to shoot more Black people.".

A hunting rifle and a shotgun were also found at the scene. Several weapons were taken from the scene with one appearing to have disturbing writing on it with “the N-word written or etched,” law enforcement sources said. He was transported to a hospital for a mental health evaluation and was not charged with a crime. The victims were six women and four men ranging in age from 32 to 86, officials said. The suspect also appeared to be active in online gun communities and posted extremist views. He was ultimately arrested at the scene.

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.

"She would go to Tops for us all the time, actually," Moyer told NPR. "We don't really have family in the area, so it was just a great help that she could ...

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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.

Three more people were injured in the attack at the Tops Friendly Markets store on Jefferson Avenue. The suspect, Payton Gendron, 18, was charged with first- ...

A retired Buffalo police officer working in the store as a security guard confronted the shooter and shot him. 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. "Any act of domestic terrorism, including an act perpetrated in the name of a repugnant white nationalist ideology, is antithetical to everything we stand for in America. Hate must have no safe harbor." "But for now, we pause out of respect for what the great community of Buffalo is going through, and we stand beside all of those who are hurting and confused by such an unthinkable act." He shot four people in the parking lot, three of whom died at the scene, before he entered the store. Buffalo police on Sunday identified the slain, who ranged in age from 32 to 86 years old. I (saw) all the other bodies on the ground," she said. He entered the store that evening, but he appeared to be bothering customers so she asked him to leave, which he did, Teague said. "Try to be better for ourselves and try to fix this scar in our city." Their ages range from 32 to 86 years old. He had camper bag on his back and was dressed in the same camouflage he wore Saturday, she said. "It was just a nightmare."