BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white gunman accused of a racist rampage at a Buffalo supermarket planned to keep killing if he had escaped the scene, the police commissioner said Monday, as authorities investigated the massacre of 10 Black people as a potential hate crime or act of domestic terrorism.
Highlights
- Police: Buffalo gunman aimed to keep killing if he got away.
- Payton Gendron, 18, had threatened to carry out a shooting at Susquehanna Valley High School in Conklin around graduation, a law enforcement official says.
- He wore body armor and used a helmet camera to livestream the bloodbath on the internet.
- Authorities are investigating the massacre of 10 Black people as a potential hate crime or act of domestic terrorism.
- The gunman, who had crossed the state to target people at the Tops Friendly Market, had talked about shooting up another store as well, police commissioner says.
- The attack was the deadliest in a wave of shootings, including at a California church and a Texas flea market.