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"Abhorrent to the very fabric of the nation": Biden condemns racist shooting in Buffalo. The attacker left a chilling document

2022-05-15T14:02:11.229Z


Relatives of the victims and the community mourn at a vigil this Sunday for the 10 people killed by a white man with racist ideologies in a supermarket. The 18-year-old man armed with military gear attacked a majority black neighborhood.


The Buffalo community woke up in mourning this Sunday.

On Saturday afternoon, an 18-year-old white man with racist ideologies opened fire in a supermarket, killing 10 people and wounding three others, in an attack that he broadcast live, and that President Biden condemned as "abhorrent."

Relatives of the victims and other members of the community gathered at a vigil on Sunday at 9 am, to remember those who died and express their anger and frustration at the lack of action by politicians to stop this type of massacre or domestic racist terrorism.

A group of pastors from various religious centers rejected the massacre and stressed that "they had never seen anything like it" in Buffalo.

"This will make us even stronger as a community," said one of the vigil participants.

Federal authorities are analyzing a racist manifesto allegedly written by the perpetrator of the massacre at a Buffalo supermarket that left 10 people dead on Saturday.

Payton S. Gendron, 18, arrived at Tops Market — a store in a mostly black neighborhood — at 2:30 pm and opened fire with a rifle from the parking lot.

Three of the victims died there and one more was injured.

Payton Gendron is arrested after a mass shooting in the parking lot of Tops Market, in Buffalo, New York on May 14, 2022.REUTERS

Then, he entered the supermarket and continued shooting, while broadcasting live with a camera that he had on his helmet.

In all, seven people died inside the store, including a retired officer working as a security guard who shot Gendron.

The young man was wearing a bulletproof vest and returned fire, killing the man.

He stopped after confronting the police from the supermarket entrance, even putting the gun to his neck.

After being persuaded he took off the equipment that protected him and was arrested.

The FBI is investigating the attack as a racially motivated extremist hate crime.

Eleven of the 13 dead and injured victims are black, according to police.

According to NBC News, in the manifesto that the young man would have published on Google Docs at 8:05 pm on Thursday, he outlined plans to attack black people and spoke of the "great replacement" conspiracy theory, which defends the false idea that they are going to replace white Americans with non-white people.

Community members view the crime scene across the street from Tops Market at Jefferson Avenue and Riley Street in Buffalo.Getty Images

The document also contained details of a planned massacre and states that Buffalo is chosen because it is the city with the most black people around it.

A source told NBC News that authorities were working to verify the authenticity of the manifest.

Gendron was arraigned Saturday night in Buffalo City Court on a first-degree murder charge, Erie County District Attorney John Flynn said.

Gendron was remanded in custody without bail and is scheduled for a felony hearing on Thursday, May 19 at 9:30 a.m.

The suspect in the mass shooting at the Buffalo Courthouse. Ron Plants/WGRZ

The young man is originally from Conklin, New York, a town located 3.5 hours from Buffalo, near the Pennsylvania border.

President Biden called for a thorough investigation and said the nation "must do everything in its power to end hate-fueled domestic terrorism" adding that "we need nothing more to state a clear moral truth: a crime of Racially motivated hatred is abhorrent to the very fabric of this nation."

The crime comes just the same week that a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was released that indicates that

 the firearm homicide rate reached its highest in 25 years in the United States.

“Black youth, men, and people have the highest rates of firearm homicides and had the most significant increases in cases in 2020,” the document says.

With information from

NBC News

Source: telemundo

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