At least ten people died in a shooting perpetrated and broadcast live on social networks this afternoon by an 18-year-old teenager in a supermarket in the city of Buffalo, in the state of New York, United States, who declared himself a white supremacist and anti-Semite, ANSA and AFP news agencies reported.
“Several people were hit by gunshots. The shooter is in custody. Motorists and residents are urged to avoid the area.” The police of that American city alerted via Twitter.
The young man entered a supermarket in Buffalo, a city located in the north of the state of New York, wearing a bulletproof vest and an AR-15 rifle and opened fire at close range, unleashing another tragedy of blood and violence in the context of mass murder in the United States.
The US media quickly echoed the news and reported at the time that the massacre left at least ten people dead.
According to reports not specified by ANSA, the suspect also made a live broadcast of the assault on Twitch, a popular social network of video consumption.
The death toll in the Tops Friendly Market massacre could have been even worse, considering that It happened on a Saturday afternoon, when that business is usually full of customers.
“I saw him come in and start shooting,” a witness reported.. Meanwhile, another said that after perpetrating his crimes, “He left (the supermarket), put his gun away, knelt down and turned himself in to the police.”
The young man is in the custody of the agents. “We are monitoring the situation,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul said.
The area adjoining the supermarket was guarded by SWAT, the police assault division, and also by some FBI agents, who were questioning witnesses and reviewing all available videos recorded by people present at the scene.
According to the first advances of the investigation into the identity of the young man, the US security forces detected that in an online video, he defines himself as a supremacist and anti-Semite, and confesses his “concern” that whites are now being replaced by minorities.
That is why the researchers estimate that the choice of the supermarket was not accidental: it is located in a neighborhood inhabited by a majority African-American population.
In the video allegedly spread by the killer on Twitch, “gruesome scenes are seen, including a woman being shot in the head as she leaves from the supermarket,” reported the ANSA agency.
US media indicated that the murderer had posted a 106-page supremacist conspiracy manifesto online in which, among other statements, he said: “I want you to understand only one thing in this document. White birth rates must change. The white population decreases. To maintain its population it is necessary to reach a fertility rate… which in the West must be about 2.06 children per woman».
In March 2021, just over a year ago, the last massacre occurred in a supermarket, the one in Boulder, Colorado, dwhere ten people lost their lives.
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