An 18-year-old white shooter who on Saturday allegedly killed 10 people at a Buffalo, N.Y., grocery store in an attack that targeted Black residents was inspired by the mass shooting carried out in New Zealand three years ago, the country's top law enforcement officials said on a call with police across the country Monday afternoon.
Gendron allegedly livestreamed the attack from the moment he pulled his car into the grocery store parking lot. The streaming stopped only because of a recording malfunction, authorities said on the call."The GoPro was active and going when [the shooter] pulled up to the scene … without hesitation and began his assault," said Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia, detailing how the attack was carried out.
Before the shooting, the suspect allegedly did a reconnaissance of the targets and location. On May 13, he was in Binghamton, N.Y., authorities said. Later that morning he was in Buffalo, a mile away from where the shooting occurred.A person pays his respects outside the scene of the Tops market shooting in Buffalo.
Erie County Sheriff John Garcia spoke about the manifesto and the alleged shooter's path to radicalization. It began in May 2020 when the suspect was browsing the internet and came across a short clip of a man entering a building, Garcia said. He then found a 17-minute-long video of the Christchurch, New Zealand, shooter's livestream of his attack on two mosques, Garcia said. The March 15, 2019, massacre left 51 people dead.
"'Every day the white population becomes fewer in number,'" the manifesto linked to Gerndon states. "'This is cultural replacement, this is racial replacement,'" Garcia said, reading from the document.
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