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Online posts reveal suspected gunman spent months planning racist attack at a Buffalo supermarket
By Travis Caldwell and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN
Updated 1:42 PM ET, Tue May 17, 2022
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(CNN)Social media posts by the 18-year-old White man suspected of shooting and killing 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket Saturday reveal he had been planning his attack for months.
Alleged gunman Payton S. Gendron of Conklin, New York, posted that he selected a particular ZIP code in Buffalo because it had the highest percentage of a Black population close enough to where he lived. Police and other officials have described the mass shooting as a hate crime.
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In his posts, initially written on the chat app Discord and shared on online forum 4chan, the suspect said he visited the Tops Friendly Markets three times on March 8 to survey the layout, as well as at the times of the day when there were the most customers. He planned his attack for mid-March, the posts say, but delayed it several times.
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Of the 13 people shot, authorities say, 11 were Black. The alleged gunman was taken into custody in the immediate aftermath and is under suicide watch after pleading not guilty to a first-degree murder charge, according to authorities.
Here are the latest developments:
• Presidential visit: In Buffalo on Tuesday, President Joe Biden called the shooting "domestic terrorism -- violence inflicted in the service of hate and the vicious thirst for power that defines one group of people being inherently inferior to any other group." He said that people "need to say as clearly and as forcefully as we can that the ideology of White supremacy has no place in America." He and first lady Jill Biden also visited a memorial site for the victims.
• Suspect visited supermarket the day before attack: Gendron was at the Tops Friendly Market on Friday, the day before the shooting, "doing reconnaissance," Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said. He was also there in early March, Gramaglia said.
• Manager says she told Gendron to leave Friday: An operations manager at the market told ABC News that she saw him at the store on Friday evening and told him to leave because it looked like he was bothering customers. Gendron, sitting on a bench outside the store wearing the camouflage he would wear Saturday, left without an argument, Shonnell Harris Teague told ABC. Teague's brother, the Rev. Tim Newkirk, told The Buffalo News that Gendron was "posing as a beggar," and Teague told him he couldn't panhandle there.
• Attack would have continued elsewhere had suspect not been stopped: The suspect had other "target locations" down the street, Erie County Sheriff John Garcia said. Authorities found another rifle and a shotgun in his vehicle, said Garcia, who credited the quick arrival of two police officers with preventing other attacks.
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• Writing seen on suspect's firearms: CNN has obtained a photo of two of the firearms inside the alleged gunman's vehicle that were not used in the shooting. Writing is seen on the weapons, including the phrase "White Lives Matter," as well as what appears to be the name of a victim of a crime committed by a Black suspect.
• Video shows gunman apologizing, sparing one person's life: Video obtained by CNN and filmed during the shooting shows the gunman turning his weapon on a man who is curled up on the ground near what looks like a checkout lane. The man shouts, "No," and the shooter then says "Sorry," turns and walks away. The video ends at this point and it is unknown what happened next. It's not clear why the man was apparently spared or why the gunman apologized.
• Threats made after attack: Two people have been arrested over threats made after the attack, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown told CNN on Tuesday, without detailing the threats. On Monday, Erie County's district attorney announced the arrest of a 52-year-old man who called a pizzeria Sunday afternoon making threatening comments while referencing what happened at Tops.
Investigators work the scene of a shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo on Monday, May 16, 2022.
Racist beliefs shared in rant allegedly from suspect
Since the shooting, officials have looked at what they say was the suspect's racist intent and his history.
"We continue to investigate this case as a hate crime, a federal hate crime, and as a crime perpetrated by a racially motivated, violent extremist," Stephen Belongia, special agent in charge of the FBI Buffalo field office, said Sunday at a news conference.
The massacre follows other mass shootings in recent years in which authorities say a White supremacist suspect was motivated by racial hatred, including in El Paso, Texas, Charleston, South Carolina, and as far as Norway and New Zealand.
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In a 180-page diatribe linked to the suspect, he said he subscribed to a "great replacement" theory, or the false belief that White Americans are being "replaced" by people of other races. Once a fringe idea, replacement theory has recently become a talking point for Fox News' host Tucker Carlson, as well as other prominent conservatives.
In the diatribe, Gendron said he became aware of his ideology "after extreme boredom" during the Covid-19 pandemic, and began sifting through the "politically incorrect" discussion board on 4chan, analysts with the New York Police Department said in an internal memo obtained by CNN on Tuesday.
He also wrote his beliefs came "from the internet" with "little to no influence ... by people I met in person," according to the memo.
The analysts wrote that Gendron likely became radicalized through social media and platforms such as Discord and the streaming outlet Twitch, warning that these are popular with the far right and can be effective in mobilizing violent extremists.
A year ago, the suspect landed on the radar of police as a student at Susquehanna Valley High School, officials said. Gendron had turned in a high school project about murder-suicides, leading to a state police investigation, said Garcia, the sheriff.
The Susquehanna Valley Central School District referred to it on Monday as an "ominous" reference to murder-suicide through a virtual learning platform in June. Though the threat was not specific and did not involve other students, the instructor immediately informed an administrator who escalated the matter to New York State Police, a spokesperson told CNN, adding the law limits what more school officials can say.
"The state police arrived at his house at that point last year," said Garcia. "He stayed at a facility -- I'm not sure if it was a hospital or a mental health facility -- for a day and a half."
It was not the sort of involuntary commitment that would have precluded the suspect from purchasing a weapon, state police spokesperson Beau Duffy said.
Gendron wrote about the investigation in a January post on Discord. He wrote it ended when he told investigators his writings were just a stupid thing he'd done.
"Another bad experience was when I had to go to a hospital's ER because I said the (words) "murder/suicide" to an online paper in economics class," the post reads. He claimed he "got out of it because I stuck with the story that I was getting out of class and I just stupidly wrote that down."
"That is the reason I believe I am still able to purchase guns. It was not a joke, I wrote that down because that's what I was planning to do," the post reads.
Gendron further claims that his mental health evaluation lasted just 15 minutes after he spent hours waiting in the emergency room.
Community mourns loved ones lost
The 10 people killed on Saturday ranged in age from 32 to 86, police said, among them a former police officer who tried to stop the gunman and a number of people doing their regular grocery shopping.
Sadness and frustration were still palpable among many who came to the supermarket to pay respects and show their support.
'We didn't have much, and you took what was left'
"We are a community in Buffalo. If you are a Black and brown person, you knew someone impacted," said Phylicia Dove, a local business owner and activist. "This is the impact of White supremacy. This was not a case of mental health, this is someone who targeted an impoverished community heavily concentrated with poor Black people, and caught us in our most vulnerable moment."
"I feel more insulted than anything," resident Darius Morgan told CNN. Born and raised in Buffalo, Morgan said of the gunman, "How dare you come in here? How dare you take this from us? We grew up here, this is our home, and they came in and destroyed it."
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'Canada is not immune,' leading Black voices say in response to Buffalo mass shooting
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Desmond Brown • CBC News • Posted: May 16, 2022 5:34 PM ET | Last Updated: 5 hours ago
Police officers secure the scene after a shooting at the Tops supermarket in Buffalo on the weekend. (Jeffrey T. Barnes/Reuters)
Members of the Black community in Canada on Monday are warning this country is also vulnerable to hate crime as they react with shock and horror to Saturday's bloodshed in Buffalo that left 10 Black people dead.
"Canada is not immune to it," Velma Morgan, the chair of Operation Black Vote Canada, told CBC News Monday.
"We've seen what happened at different places of worship, we see what happens in London, Ont., we're definitely not immune to it at all."
Payton Gendron, 18, is accused of a racist rampage after he crossed the state to target people at the Tops Friendly Market in one of Buffalo's predominantly Black neighbourhoods. He had talked about shooting up another store as well, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia told CNN.
Authorities in Buffalo are working to confirm the authenticity of a 180-page manifesto posted online, which identifies the accused by name as the gunman. It cites the "great replacement theory,"' a racist ideology that has been linked to other mass shootings in the United States and around the world.
Velma Morgan, chair of Operation Black Vote Canada, says she was horrified when she heard and saw the news of the Buffalo shooting. (David Chang Photography)
Referring to a Statistics Canada report, which says hate crimes against Black Canadians increased by 96 per cent over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Morgan says Canadians should "absolutely" be concerned when it comes to tolerance and diversity.
"We definitely have to be very conscious of [hate crimes against Black people] and we have to, I think, pre-empt it," Morgan said.
"We need to start doing things to prevent that kind of behaviour here."
'It's just horrifying'
Morgan says she was horrified when she heard of, and saw, the news of the Buffalo shooting.
"Just to think that on Saturday, people are doing their shopping, as we all do on a Saturday morning ... And to think they were shot, killed simply because they were Black. It's just horrifying," she said.
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"He didn't just turn up at a store. He planned it. He planned to go to this place because he knew and probably had been there before. He knew that the majority of people there were Black. It was a Black community," Morgan added.
"His alleged manifesto talks about Black people and our inferiority and all the things that he thinks are wrong with us. So, you know, it's systemic racism, it's a lack of education within the school system, educating people on people's rights and people's worth."
Amanda Bartley, a human behaviour researcher and a board member with Family Service Toronto, says Black people experience fresh trauma whenever there's an attack like the one in Buffalo.
"It's super traumatizing to see your people gunned down and murdered, whether it's at the hands of a civilian or even the police," she said.
Amanda Bartley, a human behaviour researcher in Toronto, says Black people experience fresh trauma whenever there’s an attack like the one in Buffalo. (Submitted by Amanda Bartley)
Bartley says Canadian leaders need to "call out white supremacy ... and be much more proactive in addressing hate crimes and far right violence before it even occurs."
"It feels like we're constantly tiptoeing and we're stopping short of saying that we have a white supremacist problem," she said.
Birgit Umaigba, an ICU nurse in Toronto, took issue with a tweet by Catherine McKenna, Canada's former minister of the environment and climate change, who said she was "feeling very fortunate to live in Canada — a diverse and tolerant country that values freedom while respecting human rights."
"First of all, that was very distressing to read because it was so void of any empathy for the people that had just lost their lives," Umaigba said.
"I'm not sure which Canada they are talking about, because for me and people who look like me, it is daily racism. Canada has this notion of always so tolerant and welcoming. We are diverse but it is so not true. It's daily racism here, the institutions are steeped in so much racism."
She too says Canadians "should be worried."
"There's so many examples: the London truck attack ... A white supremacist ran into an entire Muslim family and killed them," Umaigba said.
"The Quebec mosque shooting happened five years ago, so what are we talking about?" she said, referring to a shooting that claimed the lives of six people during prayers at a mosque in Quebec City in 2017.
"People are flying Confederate flags in their houses as we speak right now."
Birgit Umaigba, a registered nurse who specializes in critical care and emergency medicine, says: 'We carry this burden right now of the Buffalo shooting.' (Submitted by Birgit Umaigba)
Umaigba says the burden should not be on Black people alone to both suffer and combat racism.
"We need white people to step up. We are suffering because of that. Yes, there are good ones. I'm not saying that all white people are racist but we need the good ones, the allies, the co-conspirators, to step up and do the work," she said.
"A lot of us are not OK. We carry this burden right now of the Buffalo shooting," Umaigba added.
'White folks have work to do too'
Amie Archibald-Varley lives in Binbrook, a community in southeastern Hamilton about 90 kilometres from Buffalo.
Like Umaigba, Archibald-Varley says "white folks have work to do too" and is encouraging white people to talk about the shooting with their colleagues, spouses and children.
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"Hate is not something that is innate, it is learned, it is taught," she said.
"We also need to talk about how we can educate about racism within our school systems. I think that's hugely important," she said.
Amie Archibald-Varley says 'white folks have work to do too' to combat racism. (Submitted by Amie Archibald-Varley)
Meanwhile, Archibald-Varley says incidents like the Buffalo shooting leave Black communities hurt and traumatized.
"I just want to go get groceries and not have to deal with this sh*t. This is crazy," she said.
"This is not just a U.S. problem. This is a problem here in Canada as well ... That could have been any one of us Black individuals."
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She says the entire community needs to band together against racism.
"We can't keep having these same things happening without stronger laws, stronger policies, without having solidarity from other community members," Archibald-Varley said.
'We're hurt, we're broken'
Archibald-Varley, who is the daughter of Jamaican immigrants, says while she was raised to be a strong individual, the killings take a toll on members of the Black community.
"As a community we're hurt, we're broken, we're scared, but we're strong," she said.
"We've seen the damage and the harm perpetuated to us through systemic racism for years, but we are still here and we're still going to continue to fight for changes that call for accountability, to see better things, better health outcomes, better resources, better representation for Black folks and other racialized folks," she added.
"We're grieving together, but we're strong together as well."
Accused in Buffalo mass shooting that left 10 dead had previous run-in with police
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The Associated Press • Posted: May 15, 2022 12:54 PM ET | Last Updated: May 15
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WARNING: This video contains distressing details. A white 18-year-old wearing military gear and livestreaming with a helmet camera opened fire with a rifle at a supermarket in Buffalo, killing 10 people and wounding three others Saturday.
The white 18-year-old charged in the shooting deaths of 10 people at a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket had researched the demographics of the area and arrived a day before to conduct reconnaissance with the "express purpose" of killing Black people, officials said Sunday.
The chilling revelation prompted grief and anger in the predominantly Black neighbourhood around Tops Friendly Market, where a group of people gathered to lead chants of "Black lives matter" and mourn victims. They included an 86-year-old woman who had just visited her husband in a nursing home and a security guard who fired multiple shots at the suspect.
"Somebody filled his heart so full of hate that he would destroy and devastate our community," Rev. Denise Walden-Glenn said.
The accused, identified as Payton Gendron, had travelled about 320 kilometres from his home in Conklin, N.Y., to Buffalo.
"It seems that he had come here to scope out the area, to do a little reconnaissance work on the area before he carried out his just evil, sickening act," Buffalo police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said.
A person visits a makeshift memorial on Sunday outside of the Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket where the attack took place. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Earlier on Sunday, Gramaglia told ABC the accused had been in town "at least the day before."
Police said 11 Black people and two white people were shot Saturday in the rampage, which was broadcast live online before he surrendered to authorities. Ten people died.
The accused pleaded not guilty Saturday.
On Sunday, officials and family members confirmed the identities of some of the victims. They included several shoppers, as well as the grocery store's security guard.
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Federal agents interviewed the accused's parents and served multiple search warrants, a law enforcement official said on Sunday.
Authorities were still working to confirm the authenticity of a 180-page manifesto that was posted online, which detailed the plot and identified the accused by name as the gunman, the official said.
Mourners gather for a vigil on Sunday for victims of the shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
A preliminary investigation found the accused had repeatedly visited sites espousing white supremacist ideologies and race-based conspiracy theories, and extensively researched the 2019 mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, and the man who killed dozens at a summer camp in Norway in 2011, the official said.
The accused had previously threatened a shooting at his high school, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
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New York State Police said troopers were called to the Conklin school on June 8, 2021, for a report that a 17-year-old student had made threatening statements.
The gunman was taken to a hospital by police for a mental health evaluation, but wasn't charged with a crime and released from hospital within a day and a half.
The revelation raised questions about his access to weapons and whether he could have been under closer supervision by law enforcement.
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Federal law bars people from owning a gun if a judge has determined they have a "mental defect" or they have been forced into a mental institution — but an evaluation alone would not trigger the prohibition.
Livestream of shooting soon cut off
Twitch said in a statement that it ended the gunman's transmission "less than two minutes after the violence started."
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Buffalo native, demanded technology companies to tell her whether they've done "everything humanly possible" to make sure they are monitoring violent content as soon as it appears.
"If not, then I'm going to hold you responsible," she said.
A mourner crouches by flowers and candles during a Sunday vigil for the victims. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
Portions of the Twitch video circulating online showed a gunman firing volley after volley of shots in less than a minute as he raced through the parking lot and then the store, pausing for just a moment to reload. At one point, he trains his weapon on a white person cowering behind a checkout counter, but says "Sorry!" and doesn't shoot.
Screenshots purporting to be from the Twitch broadcast appear to show a racial epithet scrawled on the rifle used in the attack, as well as the number 14, a likely reference to a white supremacist slogan.
The accused, confronted by police in the store's vestibule, put a rifle to his neck but was convinced to drop it. He was arraigned later Saturday on a murder charge, appearing before a judge in a paper gown. Erie County district attorney John Flynn said the investigation is ongoing and indicated that more charges are expected."
Community reeling
The shooting — the latest act of mass violence in a country unsettled by racial tensions, gun violence and a recent spate of hate crimes — left local residents shattered.
People embrace at the scene on Sunday. (Matt Rourke/The Associated Press)
"It's just too much. I'm trying to bear witness but it's just too much. You can't even go to the damn store in peace," Buffalo resident Yvonne Woodard told the AP. "It's just crazy."
Speaking at the National Peace Officers' Memorial service at the U.S. Capitol, President Joe Biden said "we must all work together to address the hate that remains a stain on the soul of America."
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"We pray for their families. But after we pray — after we get up off of our knees — we've got to demand change. We've got to demand justice," state Attorney General Letitia James said at an emotional church service in Buffalo on Sunday morning. "This was domestic terrorism, plain and simple."
With a file from CBC News
