BUFFALO MASS SHOOTING SUSPECT: The messages, which begin in November, are laced with racist and anti-Semitic tirades, according to investigators.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said this weekend that federal authorities are investigating the shooting as"a hate crime and an act of racially-motivated violent extremism." Of theThe messages appear to have been compiled into a word document by the suspect, 18-year-old Payton Gendron. Authorities tell CBS News they are investigating the messages and believe them to be authentic.
Buffalo Police on the scene of a mass shooting at a Tops Friendly Market on May 14, 2022 in Buffalo, New York.The suspect also detailed the store's security — and in what he writes was"a close call," describes how he was approached by a security guard who asked what he was doing. He originally chose March 15 for the attack, because it is three years to the day a gunman carried out mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, according to the messages. Yet the messages show he repeatedly decided to delay the attack for various reasons.
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