An investigation into the weekend shooting of more than a dozen people at a western New York supermarket will turn on Monday to whether authorities missed telltale signs and red flags left by the teenage gunman prior to his racist killing spree.
Authorities said Payton Gendron, 18, carried out an act of "racially motivated violent extremism" when he opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle on Saturday at the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, where 11 of the 13 wounded were Black.
Another online document appeared to have been written by Gendron sketched out a to-do list for the attack, including cleaning the gun and testing the livestream he would use to relay it on social media.Gendron surrendered to police after the shooting and was charged with first-degree murder, which carries a maximum term in New York of life in prison without parole, but he has pleaded not guilty.
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will visit Buffalo on Tuesday, the White House said in a statement.Speaking before a service on Sunday at the Macedonia Baptist Church, Buffalo teenager Jaylah Bell told Reuters the shooting had left him scared to go to certain places. Every seat in the church was taken as people gathered in support of the victims’ families, with fans being distributed to alleviate a lack of air-conditioning.
The Buffalo incident follows racially motivated mass murders in recent years, such as the Atlanta spa shootings of March 2021, in which a white man killed eight people, targeting Asians, and a Pittsburgh synagogue attack in October 2018 that killed 11.Stephen Belongia, an FBI special agent in charge of the Buffalo field office, said the attack would be investigated both as a hate crime and as an act of "racially motivated violent extremism" under federal law.
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