Buffalo suspect was inspired by New Zealand shooting, officials say
Source: Yahoo! News
Exclusive: Buffalo suspect was inspired by New Zealand shooting, officials say
Jana Winter·Investigative Correspondent
Mon, May 16, 2022, 5:46 PM
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.
Payton Gendron, of Conklin, N.Y., is facing a first-degree murder charge. He’s accused of shooting a total of 13 people — four outside Tops Friendly Markets and nine inside the store, authorities said. All 10 of the people killed were Black.
FBI Director Christopher Wray told law enforcement that the bureau was conducting its own separate investigation to see if any federal laws were violated. The shooting is being investigated as a hate crime and an act of racially motivated violent extremism.
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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. That massacre, on March 15, 2019, left 51 people dead.
The suspect found the shooter’s manifesto, “and the alleged killer read the manifesto and mostly agreed with it,” Garcia said.
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