The shooter, identified as 18-year-old Payton Gendron, was arrested at the scene, a grocery store in a heavily Black neighborhood after police rushed to respond to emergency calls.
BUFFALO, UNITED STATES - Shocked residents of Buffalo, New York gathered Sunday at vigils and church services to mourn 10 people shot and killed by an alleged white supremacist teenager in an act one official described as "domestic terrorism, pure and simple."Gendron was arraigned late Saturday on a single count of first-degree murder and held without bail, the Erie County district attorney's office said.
Hochul, herself a Buffalo native, described the crime as a "military-style execution" -- she said the shooter carried an AR-15 assault weapon -- and said racist messaging was "spreading like wildfire." The attack evoked memories of some of the worst racist attacks in recent US history, including the 2015 killing by a young white man of nine worshippers in a Black church in South Carolina, and the 2019 attack by a white man in Texas that claimed 23 lives, most of them Hispanic.
One, according to a Twitter post, was a 77-year-old "mother, grandma & missionary" who "loved singing, dancing & being with family" and who for 25 years had run a weekly pantry to feed the poor. The shooting is being investigated as a hate crime "and a case of racially motivated violent extremism," Stephen Belongia, special agent in charge of the FBI's Buffalo field office, told reporters.
A semi-automatic weapon used in Saturday's shooting also had a racial epithet written on its barrel, according to local daily The Buffalo News, citing a local official.
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