Buffalo shooter targeted Black neighborhood, officials say
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on May 16, 2022
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The white 18-year-old who fatally shot 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket researched the local demographics and arrived a day in advance to conduct reconnaissance with the intent of killing as many Black people as possible, officials said Sunday.
The racially motivated attack came a year after the gunman was taken to a hospital by State Police after making threats involving his high school, according to authorities.
He wasn't charged with a crime and was out of the hospital within a day and a half, police said, but the . . .
