Buffalo residents gathered near a Tops supermarket on Sunday in a vigil for victims of a mass shooting that took place at the store on Saturday. 'This was an act of evil,' one speaker said. Read more:
The teenage suspect accused of racially-motivated mass murder at the Tops supermarket in Buffalo planned to continue his rampage by seeking more Black victims elsewhere, according to investigators.
Ten people were killed at the store in the state of New York on Saturday afternoon, with police describing the shooting as"racially motivated violent extremism" after 11 of the 13 victims were revealed to be Black. Officers arrested 18-year-old Payton Gendron, of Conklin, New York, later that day on suspicion of murder.
But now investigators believe the suspect did not intend to end his alleged rampage at the supermarket, but had instead hoped to find further victims.Getty Images
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