New York to fly flags at half-staff for victims of racist shooting at Buffalo supermarket

Flags hoisted on public buildings New York They will fly at half-staff this Monday, in tribute to the ten people killed and the three who were injured in the massacre that occurred on Saturday in the New York city of Buffalo.

“The violence we are witnessing at the hands of this white supremacist is disgusting, unacceptable and must stop here,” said this Sunday the governor of New YorkKathy Hochul, in a brief statement, adding that the flags will remain hoisted at half-staff until the deceased are buried.

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The shooting, carried out by an 18-year-old white man identified as Payton S Gendronis being investigated as a racist and terrorist attack, after a manifesto was found in which he apparently claimed that he wanted to kill -”all the black people” and, therefore, had decided to perpetrate the massacre in an area inhabited mostly by citizens of the African-American community.

Of the 13 victims, between wounded and deceased, eleven were black.

“An attack against one of us is an attack against all of us. We must confront white supremacism.”Hochul added.

People gather outside the scene of a shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. (AP / Matt Rourke /)

It is planned that Gendronwho turned himself in after the shooting, which he broadcast live through a camera attached to the military helmet he was wearing, appear before a judge next Tuesday.

According to the Police Commissioner of buffaloJoseph Gramaglia Gendron made one “widespread threat”in June of last year, when he was in high school, for which his teachers informed the Police.

Gramaglia, who did not go into details, added that it was not “a specific threat directed towards a specific place or person”.

A memorial to the victims near the site of yesterday’s shooting at a Tops Friendly Market grocery store in Buffalo, New York, USA. (EFE/EPA/BRANDON WATSON/)

The commissioner limited himself to pointing out that the Police investigated what happened, held an interview with him and transferred him to a mental institution to be evaluated.

According to an agent close to the investigation, quoted by The Wall Street Journal, the defendant wrote that he wanted to commit a mass shooting and he was released from the mental institution a day and a half after his admission.

Source: Elcomercio