The twisted gunman who massacred multiple people at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo New York, planned on continuing his rampage beyond the supermarket.
The shooter, Payton Grendon, who live-streamed the entire attack on Twitch, was heading down the street to continue his racist attack, and after investigating the 18-year-old’s home, it was evident that he planned on killing more Black Buffalo residents.
“It appeared that his plans were to drive out of here and continue driving down Jefferson Avenue looking to shoot more Black people as he could and possibly go to another store location,” Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said on “Good Morning America.”
BREAKING: Payton Gendron, the alleged gunman who shot fatally 10 people in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday, would have continued his rampage if he had not been stopped, Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia told @ABC News. @DavidMuir reports. https://t.co/VQbzzQo5mk pic.twitter.com/Eq4jxgH1xr
— Good Morning America (@GMA) May 16, 2022
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As we reported, Gendron wrote a 108-page manifesto relating to a conspiracy theory about minorities replacing white people in the United States. “If there’s one thing I want you to get from these writings, it’s that White birth rates must change. Every day the White population becomes fewer in number. “To maintain a population the people must achieve a birth rate that reaches replacement fertility levels, in the western world that is about 2.06 births per woman,” he wrote in one of the excerpts.
So you can mass shoot inside of a grocery store and this is the outcome pic.twitter.com/a9Kiy6uyus
— #WashedChronicles (@_jmoye) May 14, 2022
Gendron, 18, traveled about 200 miles from his home in Conklin, New York, to Buffalo to commit the attack, in a predominantly black neighborhood.
Gendron had been reported to the police in the past
New York State Police troopers revealed that they had previously been called to Gendron’s high school last June for a report that he made threats to shoot up a school.
He said he wanted to carry out a shooting at Susquehanna Valley High School in Conklin during graduation, but after placing him in hospital for a day, no further action was taken, and he was still able to legally purchase guns.
Update: The white supremacist shooters name is Peyton Gendron of Conklin, NY.
The end of his Rifle reads the word N*g***
He also uploaded a 106 page manifesto before the shooting pic.twitter.com/bIn2JAL2Gc
— Natasha ⚯͛ (@ndelriego) May 15, 2022
Ten of the victims of the shooting are African American and two are white. Among those injured was the son of a staffer of New York Senator Tim Kennedy.
“To say that I’m heartbroken tonight doesn’t even do it justice. I’m devastated. I’m angry. And I’m thinking about the families who won’t welcome a loved one home tonight. All because an individual filled with pure evil made a calculated decision to senselessly take innocent lives. Let us be clear: this was a hate crime and an act of terrorism on our community. It was racially motivated, extremism in its most pure form.”‘