As per the recent news, Officials in New York were probing how a white 18-year-old, who the government claimed had been on authorities’ radar since high school, was able to shoot 10 people to death in a Black neighborhood grocery store on Sunday. Payton Gendron, the suspect, confessed to police on Saturday at the Buffalo, New York, business following what investigators described as an act of “racially motivated violent extremism.” He appears to have posted a racist ideology on the internet.
Furthermore, the Buffalo tragedy follows several racially driven terror attacks in recent years, including a Pittsburgh synagogue assault in October 2018 that murdered 11 attendees and the Atlanta spa shootings in March 2021, in which a white man murdered eight Asians.
The reports claimed that Authorities said Gendron was loaded with an assault-style rifle and drove to Buffalo from his residence several hours away to carry out the afternoon attack, which he streamed live on the social media site Twitch, an Amazon. com-owned live streaming service. According to police, eleven of the thirteen victims hit by gunfire were Black. The other two were white. The racial makeup of the deceased was not disclosed.
A 180-page book alleged to have been written by Gendron and circulated online on Saturday revealed “The Great Replacement Theory,” a racist conspiracy theory claiming white people are being substituted by minorities in the United States and other countries.
Another paper floating around the internet that claimed to be created by Gendron outlined the attack’s to-do list, which included cleaning the rifle and testing the broadcast. The district attorney’s office in Erie County refused to respond to the materials.
Stephen Belongia, the FBI special agent in charge of the bureau’s Buffalo field office, said the attack would be investigated both as a hate crime and as an act of “racially motivated violent extremism” under federal law.
As per the sources, we came to know that In a statement made late Saturday, US President Biden called the massacre abhorrent to the fundamental fiber of this nation. Authorities stated the boy was on the verge of committing suicide before being apprehended. The suspect held a gun to his neck when confronted by authorities at the business, but they coaxed him into dropping the weapon and surrendering.
