At least ten people died and three were injured, two of them seriously, in a shooting perpetrated and broadcast live on social networks by an 18-year-old teenager in a supermarket in the city of Buffalo, in the state of New York, United States, who declared himself a white supremacist and anti-SemiteANSA and AFP news agencies reported.
The FBI reported for its part that it investigates as a “hate crime” the shooting and as “a case of racist extremist violence,” Stephen Belongia, a special agent with the FBI office in Buffalo, told reporters, according to the AFP agency.
“Several people were hit by gunfire. The shooter is in custody. Motorists and residents are urged to avoid the area,” the police of that American city warned via Twitter.
An hour later, at a press conference, that police force indicated that it was investigating the mass murder as a “hate crime of racist extremism.”
The young murderer entered a supermarket in Buffalo, a city located in upstate New York, wearing a bulletproof vest and an AR-15 rifle and opened fire at close range.which unleashed another tragedy of blood and violence in the context of mass murder in the United States.
The US media quickly echoed the news and reported at the time that the massacre left at least ten people dead.
BREAKING: BPD on scene of a mass shooting at the Tops in the 1200 block of Jefferson Avenue. Police say multiple people have been struck by gunfire. The shooter is in custody. Motorists and residents are urged to avoid the area.
— Buffalo Police Dept (@BPDAlerts) May 14, 2022
According to reports not specified by ANSA, The suspect also live streamed the assault on Twitch, a popular social video consumer network..
The number of victims of the killing at the Tops Friendly Market supermarket could have been even worse, considering that it happened on a Saturday afternoon, when that store is usually full of customers.
“I saw him walk in and start shooting,” a witness reported. Meanwhile, another said that after committing his crimes, “he left (the supermarket), put his gun away, knelt down and turned himself in to the police.”
Shonnell Harris, one of the managers of the premises, reported that she had managed to “see the attacker, he was a young, white man, who acted as if he were in the Army.”
The woman also assured that she had heard “about seventy shots” until she managed to run away from the place, while a police officer claimed to have found “five bodies in the parking lot.”
The young man is in the custody of the agents. “We are monitoring the situation,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul said.
The area adjacent to the supermarket was guarded by SWAT, the assault division of the police, and also by some FBI agents.who were questioning witnesses and reviewing all available videos recorded by people present at the scene.
According to the first advances of the investigation into the identity of the young man, the US security forces detected that in an online video, he defines himself as a supremacist and anti-Semite, and confesses his “concern” because whites are now being replaced by minorities.
That is why the researchers estimate that the choice of the supermarket, located at 1275 Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo, was not accidental: it is located in a neighborhood inhabited mostly by an African-American population.
In the video allegedly released by the killer on Twitch, “gruesome scenes are seen, including a woman who is shot in the head as she leaves the supermarket,” the ANSA agency reported.
US media reported that the killer had posted a 106-page supremacist conspiracy manifesto online in which, among other things, he said: “I want you to understand just one thing from this document. White birth rates must change. The population The white population decreases. To maintain its population, it is necessary to reach a fertility rate… which in the West must be about 2.06 children per woman.”
In March 2021, just over a year ago, the last massacre occurred in a supermarket, the one in Boulder, Colorado, where ten people lost their lives.
