An 18-year-old White man opened fire Saturday at a supermarket in Buffalo, killing 10 people and injuring three others, said law enforcement officials, who are investigating the incident as a hate crime and a case of racially motivated violent extremism. Eleven of the 13 people were Black.
Hours after the attack, Payton Gendron of Conklin, N.Y., was charged with first-degree murder and pleaded not guilty. He is being held without bail. Authorities say Gendron drove to Buffalo and carried out the shooting at Tops Friendly Markets using an assault weapon and dressed in tactical gear, including a helmet with a camera attached to it, from which he live-streamed the shooting online. After shooting people in the parking lot and inside the store, Gendron surrendered to police, officials said.
