Payton Gendron, the perpetrator of the Buffalo massacre, planned to continue the killing in other stores. Photo: AP
Payton S Gendronthe 18-year-old arrested as the author of the murder of 10 people, mostly black, at a supermarket in downtown Buffalo (New York) “planned to continue the killing“, as confirmed by the local police commissioner, Joseph Gramaglia.
In American chain statements CNNGramaglia confirmed that the evidence indicates that the perpetrator, who surrendered to police after the shooting, had plans. continue shooting to more people. “
“Evidence was discovered that he had plans, did he leave here, to continue his killing and continue shooting at people,” he explained. “He even discussed the possibility of go to other stores“disclosure of the police chief.
Tops Friendly Markets supermarket was the scene of the massacre on Saturday. Photo: AP.
“We found out documentation that the suspect possibly had a plan for the hunt in another large box store, “Gramaglia added.
“We believe the idea was to get in his car and continue driving on Jefferson Avenue to continue doing the same thing,” the police officer explained.
According to CNN, in the attack made on Tops Friendly Markets, eleven at 13 people shot were black. For this reason, “racism” was pointed out as the motive for the brutal attack.
The victims ranged in age from 20 to 86, police said, including a former officer who tried to arrest the attacker and a 62-year-old woman who was shopping with her boyfriend.
Payton Gendron is 18 years old. He gave himself up after the attack. Photo: AP
on the hunt, three people were injured. “What happened was almost a rule. It was probably hatred that motivated him to carry out a racist attack,” Erie County Sheriff John Garcia said.
Saturday’s attack
Payton Gendron traveled in a car from Conklin, a town 320 kilometers southeast of Buffalo, where he lives with his parents. And he stopped in the supermarket parking lot around 2:30 p.m.
It is equipped with a bulletproof vest and a protective helmet with a built-in camera He fired in the parking lot and killed three people before entering the Super.
Entering, he exchanged gunfire with an armed security guard, who died, and then continued firing inside the market. Everything was broadcast live. He then left and surrendered to the police.
The attacker live broadcast the massacre that took place in Buffalo. Photo: video capture.
Gendron is assumed to have arrived in the city a day earlier to carefully study the accesses and the movements that the Supermarket has.
So far, authorities are investigating whether it was a terrorist attack or a hate crime according to, among other things, the 180-page document that, apparently, the young man left written on his plans.
U.S. President Joe Biden is scheduled to travel to Buffalo on Tuesday to honor the victims and offer his condolences to their families.
The manifesto, with an unusual mention of Argentina
Investigators are trying to confirm the authenticity of a manifesto spreading on social networks, which the murderer would have written.
The text is a pamphlet full of messages of hatred, anti-Semitism, racism, conspiracy theories, memes and even an unusual mention of Argentina. It also contains a sketch of the murder scene, along with step-by-step execution planning, from the start of the live broadcast to the selected weapons.
The manifesto of the alleged buffalo shooter began to spread on social media after the massacre. This is a 180-page text full of anti-Semitism and racism, in which the author tries to justify the attacks based on an alleged advance against the “white population”, based on conspiracy theory known as “The Great Replacement”.
It assumes that Western society is attacked by the low birth rate of “whites”, which is also surpassed by the high birth rate of “immigrants”, which -according to the author -will replace them in the next years. This is a very popular view in America’s most right-wing forums and even in some major media.
Proponents of this theory also hold the dangerous theory that it was part of a plan orchestrated by a ruling elite, made up of bankers and Jewish communities, that fueled a “left wing” agenda aimed at exterminate white populations.
In the midst of this delirium, the author of the manifesto used Argentina as an example on several occasions, because he considered it to be “a white country”, a fact that is inconsistent with the multicultural reality of the country. On the first page it indicates that this is the only “white” area in the West where the birth rate exceeds the 2.06 births needed for that race so as not to lose its predominance among “migrants.”
According to these data, whose source is Wikipedia, the country has an index of 2.24. Throughout the manifesto, the author relies on a series of alternative sources and questionable data to support the development of a story that, according to him, motivated him to carry out the massacre.
With information from EFE
Source: Clarin
