(CNN) --
Saturday's massacre in Buffalo, New York, is the latest mass shooting in which authorities say the suspect was motivated by hate.
The suspected shooter, an 18-year-old white man, shot and killed 10 people and wounded three others at a supermarket in a predominantly black area, authorities said.
Eleven of the victims are black.
"We will be aggressive in our pursuit of anyone who subscribes to the professed ideals of other white supremacists and how there is a feeding frenzy on social media platforms where hate festers more hate," New York Governor Kathy said on Saturday. Hochul.
Investigators in the case found evidence indicating "racial animosity," Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn said during a news conference Saturday.
The FBI says it is investigating the incident as a hate crime and a case of racially motivated violent extremism.
The attack comes amid rising levels of hate crimes across the country.
An FBI report released last year found that U.S. hate crime reports in 2020 rose to the highest level in 12 years.
Also in 2020, the Department of Homeland Security warned that white supremacists would likely remain the "most persistent and deadliest threat" to the country.
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These are other high-profile massacres in recent years that authorities say were fueled by hate.
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San Diego: the attacker "hated the Jewish community and the Muslim community"
John T. Earnest admitted to the shooting at a San Diego-area synagogue that left one person dead and three others wounded in 2019. In December, Earnest was sentenced to a second life in prison after pleading guilty to a 113-count charge. charges including hate crimes and weapons violations.
He was armed with an AR-15-style rifle when he entered Poway's busy Chabad synagogue and began shooting.
He also admitted setting fire to a mosque in nearby Escondido several weeks before the shooting.
"The defendant targeted his victims because he hated the Jewish community and the Muslim community," Randy Grossman, US Attorney for the Southern District of California, previously said.
"The defendant and his hatred have been silenced. He will spend the rest of his days and die in prison, languishing behind bars," Grossman said.
El Paso, Texas: Deadliest Attack on Latinos in Modern US History.
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Patrick Crusius, the man accused of killing 23 people and wounding nearly two dozen others in a 2019 mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, has been indicted on dozens of federal charges, including hate crimes resulting in death and hate crimes involving attempted murder.
This was the deadliest shooting of Latinos in modern US history.
Crusius was charged with killing and harming victims "because of any person's actual and perceived national origin," the indictment says.
An earlier arrest affidavit said he told police his goal was to kill Mexicans.
He has pleaded not guilty and is yet to stand trial.
Crusius' attorneys said he was in a psychotic state after the shooting and that he was mentally handicapped.
Pittsburgh: 11 parishioners were killed in a synagogue
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In October 2018, a gunman killed 11 worshipers at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue, in what is believed to be the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in US history, according to Anti-League of defamation.
Authorities said Robert Bowers attacked Jews online and made anti-Semitic comments during the shooting.
Later, while receiving medical attention, he told a SWAT officer that he wanted all Jews to die, according to a criminal complaint.
Federal prosecutors filed hate crime charges against Bowers, alleging that he used anti-Semitic slurs and criticized a Jewish group on a social networking site in the days before the shooting.
Federal prosecutors said in 2019 they would seek the death penalty on charges including obstruction of the free exercise of religious belief resulting in death, use and discharge of a firearm to commit murder, and possession of a firearm during a violent crime. .
They said they are justified in seeking the death penalty because of the role Bowers' anti-Semitic views played in the shooting.
He has pleaded not guilty and has not yet been tried.
2015: A Charleston church becomes a target
In June 2015, outspoken white supremacist Dylann Roof shot dead nine black worshipers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historic black church, in Charleston, South Carolina.
Roof was convicted of federal charges and sentenced to death in January 2017. He was the first federal hate crime defendant to be sentenced to death, a Justice Department spokesman said.
"Mother Emanuel was her destination specifically because it was a historically black church of importance to the people of Charleston, South Carolina and to the nation," then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in 2015. "In That summer night, Dylann Roof found his targets, blacks dedicated to worship."
Roof spent months planning the attack, Lynch said.
"I was looking for the kind of church and the kind of congregants whose death would, in fact, generate great notoriety for ... their racist views," he said.
Milwaukee: the attacker who had spoken of a "racial holy war"
Another place of worship, intended to be a refuge, was the scene of a mass shooting in August 2012.
An Army veteran opened fire at a gurdwara, or Sikh house of worship, in the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people and wounding four others.
Wade Michael Page died of a self-inflicted wound after being shot by a police officer, the FBI said.
The shooting came as violent attacks on Sikhs increased after September 11, 2001.
Then-Attorney General Eric Holder called the attack "an act of terrorism, an act of hate, a hate crime."
According to a man who described himself as a former Army buddy of Page's, the shooter spoke about "racial holy war" when they served together in the 1990s.
Christopher Robillard of Oregon, who said he had lost contact with Page, added in 2012 that when Page would rant, "he would mostly mean anyone who is not white."
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