A deadly shooting in Buffalo, New York, that ended in the deaths of 10 people and three injured three is being investigated as a federal hate crime and a case of racially motivated violent extremism.
Saturday’s shooting at a supermarket was carried out by a white teenager. All but two of the victims were Black. Here is what we know so far: A white 18-year-old wearing military gear and livestreaming with a helmet camera opened fire Saturday afternoon at Tops Friendly Market.
The first 911 call came in a 2.30 pm local time, police said. And patrol officers were on the scene within a minute. Read more: Parents of Buffalo mass shooter accused of killing 10 questioned by feds The gunman livestreamed the shooting to a small audience on Twitch for several minutes before the platform cut off his feed.
Twitch said in a statement that it ended Gendron’s transmission “less than two minutes after the violence started.” Screenshots purporting to be from the live Twitch broadcast appear to show a racial epithet scrawled on the rifle used in the attack, as well as the number 14, a likely reference to a white supremacist slogan.