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Buffalo police have identified Payton Gendron as the eighteen year old teen killer responsible for a mass shooting that left ten people dead in the New York city. According to police reports Payton Gendron who is from Conklin New York drove hours to Buffalo where he went to a predominantly black area and opened fire striking thirteen people and killing ten. Payton Gendron was reportedly dressed in camouflage, wearing a black helmet and heavily armed. Apparently the teen killer was live streaming the mass shooting. Needless to say Payton Gendron is in a world of trouble and as of yet no motive has been announced other than the Buffalo police are investigating the mass shooting as a hate crime

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Ten people were killed and three others wounded in a “racially motivated” mass shooting Saturday, by a young man in military-style gear who was toting an assault rifle, and livestreaming the mayhem at a Buffalo supermarket, authorities said.

The shooter — identified by law enforcement as 18-year-old Payton Gendron — drove from “hours away” in Conklin, New York, to the Tops market on Jefferson Avenue, in a predominantly black neighborhood, officials said.

Eleven of the victims were black and two were white.

“We are investigating this incident as both a hate crime and a case of racially-motivated violent extremism,” said Stephen Belongia, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Buffalo field office said during a press conference.

Erie County Sheriff John Garcia gave a more blunt

“This was pure evil. It was a straight-up racially motivated hate crime,” he said.

Payton Gendron arrived at the market at around 2:30 p.m. He “was very heavily armed. He had tactical gear on. He had a tactical helmet on,” Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said. 

Payton Gendron also had a camera to livestream the shooting, Gramaglia said.

The gunman opened fire in the parking lot, killing three people and injuring a fourth, he said.

He then went inside the store, where he encountered a longtime “beloved” security guard and former Buffalo cop, who tried to stop him, Gramaglia said.

The guard’s bullet couldn’t pierce the attacker’s armor, he said.

Payton Gendron opened fire on the guard, killing him, Gramaglia said, before allegedly working his way through the rest of the store.

Buffalo cops confronted the shooter, who at one point put his gun to his own neck before authorities were able to talk him into surrendering, officials said.

Erie County District Attorney John Flynn vowed to arraign the shooter on a charge of first-degree murder “within the hour,” he said Saturday evening, refusing to identify the attacker by name.

“I don’t want to give him any celebritism right now. I don’t want to do anything that puts any attention on him,” Flynn said.

“The shooter was not from this community. The shooter traveled hours to this community to perpetuate this crime on the people of Buffalo,” Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said.

The bloodshed occurred in the middle of a Saturday afternoon when many people were doing their grocery shopping.

The store’s operation manager told the Buffalo News she thought she heard 70 shots.

She saw the shooter and said, “He looked like he was in the Army.”

Two people who saw the gunman leaving the store described him as wearing camouflage attire with a black helmet.

“He was standing there with the gun to his chin. We were like what the heck is going on? Why does this kid have a gun to his face?” said witness Braedyn Kephart.

Kephart said the man dropped to his knees, ripped off his helmet and let go of his gun and then was tackled by police.

One regular shopper at the market told a local television station that he knew several of those killed.

“I lost three people today that I know and talk to five, six times a week. One, a friend of over 30 years, another a friend of 20 years. This is insane,” the man said.

The supermarket chain tweeted a statement saying it was “shocked and saddened by this senseless act of violence.”

Gov. Kathy Hochul tweeted that she was “closely monitoring the shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo,” her hometown. She said state officials have offered help to local authorities.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said President Biden had been briefed on the shooting.

“He will continue to receive updates throughout the evening and tomorrow as further information develops. The president and the first lady are praying for those who have been lost and for their loved ones,” she said.

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Buffalo New York police are saying that a white teen who is eighteen years old is in custody for a mass shooting that left ten people dead. According to police reports the teen killer, who is not from the Buffalo area, opened fire at a grocery store in a predominately black community striking at least 12 people leaving ten people dead. Witnesses would say that the teen killer was dressed in full camouflage wearing a black helmet and armed with a rifle. Buffalo police are saying that the latest mass shooting is considered to be a hate crime. This story is still breaking.

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Ten people were killed in a racially motivated mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo on Saturday by a suspect in tactical gear who was livestreaming the attack, law enforcement officials said during a news conference.The suspect is in custody in the shooting, which occurred Saturday afternoon at a Tops Friendly Markets store.Investigators are reviewing a purported manifesto posted online in connection with the mass shooting, two federal law enforcement officials told CNN.

The shooting is being investigated as a hate crime and the FBI is assisting, said Stephen Belongia, special agent in charge of the FBI Buffalo field office, at the news conference

Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia identified the shooter as an 18-year-old White male who is not from the Buffalo area but “from hours away.” Officials have so far not named him.

The suspect drove to Buffalo to the Tops market heavily armed, wearing tactical gear, and had a camera where he was livestreaming what he was doing, Gramaglia said.He shot four people in the parking lot of the market, Gramaglia said. Three of those individuals died and one survived, Gramaglia added.He will be arraigned on charge of murder in first degree Saturday evening, said Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn.The killing spree in Buffalo is yet another entry to America’s growing list of hate-fueled mass shootings.And the violence adds to the year’s growing toll of mass shootings in the United States, which stood at 197 as of Saturday afternoon, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The archive and CNN define a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are shot, not including the shooter.Experts consider easy access to guns a root cause of the violence, and open-carry states lower the barrier for people to own and carry guns in public. But the spike in violence since summer 2020 has been general, across cities and states with lax and strict gun laws, with progressive and conservative prosecutors, as well as Republican and Democratic mayors and governors.

The suspect walked into the market and began shooting at customers in the store, Gramaglia said.A supermarket security guard, a retired Buffalo Police officer, “fired multiple shots at the suspect,” but the suspect’s tactical gear protected him from the officer’s shots, Gramaglia said.The suspect fatally shot the security officer and continued going through the supermarket, working toward the front of the store, where he encountered Buffalo police officers.The suspect put his gun to his own neck, at which point two Buffalo officers talked him into dropping his gun and then took off some of his tactical gear and surrendered to police, officials said. Police arrested the suspect and transported him to Buffalo police headquarters.”This is the worst nightmare that any community can face, and we are hurting and we are seething right now as a community,” Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said. “The depth of pain that families are feeling and that all of us are feeling right now cannot even be explained.”

Tops Friendly Markets released a statement following the shooting, saying it’s “shocked and deeply saddened.””We appreciate the quick response by local law enforcement and are providing all available resources to assist authorities in the ongoing investigation,” the statement said.