The 18 -year -old attacker was arrested. He has gone a long way to perpetrate what looks like a racist crime, according to the first elements of the investigation. Most of the victims are black.
Le Monde
A heavily armed man dressed in fighting clothes opened fire on Saturday May 14 in a supermarket in the city of Buffalo, in New York State, killing at least 10 people and three injured. He was quickly arrested by the police, according to local authorities.
The assailant, an 18 -year -old young man whose identity has not yet been revealed, would have traveled long hours, from another county of this state, to go to this supermarket of the Tops brand . At the end of the afternoon, he first fired out of four people in the store car park, before entering inside to continue his killing. According to local authorities, he broadcast this massacre live thanks to a camera positioned on the helmet he wore.
The track of a racist crime
According to the sheriff of the County of Erie, John Garcia, the killer’s reason would be racist. “It was absolute evil,” he said during a press conference. “It was clearly a crime of racist hatred.” The supermarket is in a mainly populated district by African-Americans. The authorities say that among the 13 victims were eleven black and two white people.
The FBI seized the investigation. “We are investigating this incident as both a hateful crime and a case of violent extremism with racial motivation,” said Stephen Belongia, special agent in charge of the FBI Buffalo office at a press conference.