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NY State Shooting: Gunman Deliberately Sought Black Victims – Mayor

  • Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said the suspect arrived intending to take “as many black lives as possible”

  • A 180-page document seemingly authored by Gedron has emerged, in which he describes himself as a fascist and a white supremacist

The suspect, Payton Gendron, 18, drove more than 320km (200 miles) to carry out the attack, police say.

The attack is being investigated as an act of racially motivated violent extremism.

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said the suspect arrived intending to take “as many black lives as possible”.

Questions are being asked about how he was able to carry out the attack when he was already on the radar of authorities.

Gendron had previously threatened a shooting at his high school last June, a law enforcement official told the Associated Press. He underwent a mental health examination afterwards.

A 180-page document seemingly authored by Gedron has emerged, in which he describes himself as a fascist and a white supremacist.

“I want to know what people knew and when they knew it,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul told ABC News.

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Police said the suspect had done “reconnaissance” of the area the day before the shooting.

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