The person responsible for the racist massacre in Buffalo planned to “keep killing”, police reveal

payton gendronthe 18-year-old white man who last saturday he killed ten peoplealmost all black, in a supermarket in the town of buffalo (New York) planned to continue killing, according to the town’s police commissioner, Joseph Gramaglia.

Speaking to CNN, Gramaglia assured that the evidence indicates that the assailant, who turned himself in to the police after the shooting, he had plans “to continue shooting people.”

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“He even talked about the possibility of going to another store” after the first attack, the commissioner told the network.

payton gendron moved in a vehicle from Conklin, a town 320 kilometers southeast of buffalowhere he lived with his parents, and parked it in the parking lot of the Tops supermarket around 2:30 p.m. local time (6:30 p.m. GMT).

Payton Gendron murdered 10 people in a supermarket in Buffalo, United States. (AFP).

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Gendronwho had apparently arrived in town a day earlier, He was armed and was equipped with a bulletproof vest and a protective helmet to which a camera was attached, through which he broadcast his crime live.

In the parking lot of the shopping centerTops” killed three people before entering the place and continuing with the massacre.

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Among the fatalities is an armed vigilante, a former police officer, who tried to stop him without success.

Authorities are investigating what happened as a terrorist attack and a hate crime according, among other things, to a 180-page document that, apparently, the young man left written with his plans.

There is “some documentation” that the suspect had plans to carry out an attack on “another large store,” Gramaglia told CNN.

“He was going to get in his car and continue driving down Jefferson Avenue (where Tops supermarket is located) and continue doing the same thing”added the commissioner.

US President Joe Biden is scheduled to travel to buffalo on Tuesday to honor the victims and offer condolences to their families.

Source: Elcomercio