Eighteen-year-old Payton Gendron from Conklin, New York, was identified in court as the suspected shooter who left 10 dead and three wounded at a supermarket in Buffalo on Saturday.
The big picture: The FBI is investigating the shooting as a hate crime and a case of racially motivated violent extremism. Gendron plead not guilty to murder in the first degree.
What we know:
The suspect livestreamed the shooting on Twitch.
- Twitch, the livestreaming site owned by Amazon, told the New York Times Sunday that the video was taken down within two minutes of the violence starting.
- Copies and screenshots taken from the broadcast, however, are circulating online.
The shooter wore tactical gear and used a semi-automatic rifle during the attack.
- Police said Saturday the shooter was dressed in camouflaged tactical gear, included a bulletproof vest, and used a semi-automatic rifle.
- A supermarket security guard, Aaron Salter, fired at the shooter as he entered the store, but the shots did not penetrate the body armor. Salter, a retired Buffalo police officer, was later killed.
- The rifle used in the attack had a racial epithet scrawled on it and the number 14, a white supremacist numeric symbol.
The suspect drove over 200 miles for the attack....
- Law enforcement officials said Saturday that the alleged shooter drove over 200 miles from Conklin to Buffalo and specifically targeted a grocery store in a predominantly Black neighborhood. Eleven of the 13 people shot were Black.
- Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia told ABC on Sunday that the suspect