An 18 year old who wore tactical gear….
Drove up to a Buffalo Store….
Shot people infront of the store….
Shot people in the store….
Then?
Gave up to the cops confronting him….
A gunman opened fire at a grocery store in Buffalo on Saturday, kill 10 people, local authorities said.
The police said on Twitter that a gunman was in custody after the shooting at an outlet of the regional grocery chain Tops Friendly Markets.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Twitter that she was “closely monitoring the shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo” and recommended that residents avoid the area.
Jaye Emmons, a 49-year-old social worker who lives a block and a half from Tops, was watching a YouTube video about a romantic breakup between two celebrities when “all of a sudden there were a tremendous amount of shots,” she said in a phone interview from a nail salon across the street from Tops. Ms. Emmons estimated that she heard 60 shots.
“What I heard was massive — bullets shooting aimlessly, firing out of a military weapon,” she said.
She added that she could tell that the shooting came from Jefferson Avenue, the location of the Tops outlet.
She said that a relative had visited the site of the shooting and came back saying he had learned that the gunman had started to fire in the parking lot outside the grocery store, entered the store and continued firing, then exited, at which point he was handcuffed by the authorities….
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Authorities are classifying this mass shooting as a hate crime…..
Buffalo shooting Update…
A man has opened fire at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York while live-streaming on Twitch, killing at least 10 people and injuring several others, local officials and witnesses say. He also posted an online manifesto in which he described himself as a white supremacist…
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Buffalo Update….
Federal authorities have said they are pursuing the case as a racially motivated hate crime, meaning they may file federal civil rights charges in addition to the state murder charge that has been leveled against Gendron. In addition, Erie County District Attorney John Flynn (D) said Sunday he may also pursue a domestic terrorism charge against Gendron, noting that racially motivated violence could trigger a New York law covering “domestic acts of terrorism motivated by race,” which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole….
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By his own account, the suspected Buffalo supermarket gunman became a racist killer while bored online. According to a lengthy screed authorities believe Payton Gendron posted before allegedly killing 10 people on Saturday, the 18-year-old was drawn to hateful rhetoric from a mass murderer on the other side of the world.
As investigators unpack the disturbing details of Gendron’s alleged crimes, current and former law enforcement officials said he apparently hoped his shocking violence would draw attention from well beyond this small town in Upstate New York….
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President Biden and first lady Jill Biden will visit Buffalo, N.Y., on Tuesday to meet with local leaders and community members in the wake of a shooting over the weekend that left 10 dead, the White House announced Sunday.
The White House in a statement said the Bidens would “grieve with the community that lost ten lives in a senseless and horrific mass shooting.”
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