Supermarket massacre probed as hate crime

Teenage suspect pleads not guilty in mass shooting livestreamed on Twitch

An 18-year-old attacker was detained without bail on first-degree murder charges following a mass shooting at a supermarket in New York state, that authorities described as a “Hate crime” and “Racially motivated violent extremism.”

The heavily-armed shooter wearing a bulletproof vest and a tactical helmet first opened fire at a parking lot and then inside a Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo around 2:30 pm on Saturday, killing ten shoppers and employees, and injuring three others – all while livestreaming the attack online.

When police arrived at the scene and confronted the gunman, he reportedly put the rifle to his neck, but was eventually persuaded to drop the weapon and surrender.

Authorities said that 11 of his victims were black, with Erie County Sheriff John Garcia describing the attack as “Pure evil” and a “Straight up racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside our community.”

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The suspect was identified as 18yo Payton Gendron from a New York state community of Conklin, about 200 miles southeast of Buffalo when he appeared before court later on Saturday. He was charged with first degree murder and could face life in prison with no parole under NY state laws. The next court hearing was scheduled for next week after he pleaded not guilty.

Multiple federal agencies, including the FBI and ATF are assisting local authorities in their investigation, with the attack being probed as “Both a hate crime and a case of racially motivated violent extremism,” according to Stephen Belongia, a special agent in charge of the FBI’s Buffalo field office.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called the attacker a “White supremacist who just perpetrated a hate crime on an innocent community,” expressing “Sincere hope that this individual spend will spend the rest of his days behind bars.”

US President Joe Biden addressed the tragedy in a written statement on Saturday night, saying that while there’s still much to learn about the motivation for the shooting – the initial information was enough to “State a clear moral truth.”

“Any act of domestic terrorism, including an act perpetrated in the name of a repugnant white nationalist ideology, is antithetical to everything we stand for in America,” Biden said. “We must do everything in our power to end hate-fueled domestic terrorism.”

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