Thirty minutes before an 18-year-old White man allegedly carried out a racist mass shooting Saturday at a supermarket in a mostly Black enclave of Buffalo, New York, he revealed his monthslong plot to some on social media.
Highlights
- NEW: New York’s attorney general launches probe into social media companies used by alleged shooter.
- Payton S. Gendron, 18, is accused of killing 10 people and wounding three in a racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.
- He created a private chat room on the communications app Discord and invited people to view his chat logs before the attack, a company says.
- The company removed the server and related content “as soon as” it was aware of it following the shooting, a spokesperson for the app says.
- New York Gov.
- Kathy Hochul: “Social media platforms must be more vigilant in monitoring the content and they must be held accountable”