The victims of Saturday’s racially motivated shooting in Buffalo, New York, include retired police officer Aaron Salter
Highlights
- Aaron Salter, a community member and security guard, was shot and killed by a white gunman in Buffalo, New York.
- Salter fired multiple times at the attacker, striking his armor-plated vest at least once.
- The retired Buffalo police officer was one of 10 people killed in the racially motivated attack.
- The victims were a cross-section of life in the predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo.
- The gunman was a white man with the “express purpose” of killing Black people, authorities say.
- The suspect is believed to be a white father-of-one, a father of one of the victims, who was visiting relatives.