He has pleaded not guilty.Īttorney General Merrick Garland on Saturday said the Justice Department was investigating the attack as a “hate crime and an act of racially-motivated violent extremism.” It’s unclear if the Justice Department would be able to seek the federal death penalty - as that depends on what charges are brought. The suspect was charged with first-degree murder Saturday. Those charges are expected in the coming days, and would be in addition to state charges. “The term domestic terrorism is a legal term, and because the investigation is ongoing, I won't - I won't employ that term.”įederal prosecutors are working to bring charges against the shooting suspect law enforcement officials said. “With respect to the tragic events of this past Saturday, it is being investigated, as the FBI articulated, as a hate crime,” Mayorkas told CNN’s Jeremy Diamond. The investigation: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told CNN Monday that the shooting is being investigated as a hate crime, but declined to call it a domestic terrorist attack. Eleven were Black and two were White, Buffalo police said. Thirteen people, ages 20 to 86, were shot. They were among the 10 people killed in the shooting. A substitute teacher who was a "pillar of the community." A beloved grandmother of six. The victims: A retired police lieutenant. The suspect shot and killed the guard and then "continued to work his way through the store," Gramaglia said. Wearing tactical gear, he shot four people in the parking lot, Gramaglia said, and then went inside the store, where a security guard engaged him. Here's what we know so far about the attack:Ībout the attack: Gramaglia said the suspect drove to the store around 2:30 p.m.
The massacre follows other mass shootings in recent years in which authorities say a White supremacist suspect was motivated by racial hatred, including in El Paso, Texas, Charleston, South Carolina, and as far as Norway and New Zealand. The information comes as investigators have dug into a 180-page diatribe posted online and attributed to the suspected gunman that lays out in detail his motives and plans for the attack. "Information has also come as a result of some of this investigation that the individual was here a few months ago, back in early March," Gramaglia said. However, Gramaglia updated that timeline as he described the investigation into the suspect's extensive "digital footprint."
Officials had previously said the suspect, who is from Conklin, about 200 miles away, arrived in Buffalo on Friday for the first time to scout out the Tops Friendly Markets store in a predominantly Black neighborhood. The 18-year-old White man accused of killing 10 people in a racist mass shooting Saturday at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, had visited in early March, police commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said Monday. People lay their hands on Deazjah Roseboro, 12, as she comforts her cousin, Jerney Moss, 8, following a mass shooting at a Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, NY, on Sunday, May 15.
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