The shooter, Payton Gendron, traveled about 200 miles to that particular grocery store, located in a predominately Black neighborhood.
at a Buffalo supermarket and served multiple search warrants, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Sunday.
A preliminary investigation found Gendron had repeatedly visited sites espousing white supremacist ideologies and race-based conspiracy theories and extensively researched the 2019, and the man who killed dozens at a summer camp in Norway in 2011, the official said. Police said Gendron shot, in total, 11 Black people and two white people Saturday in a rampage that the 18-year-old broadcast live before surrendering to authorities. Screenshots purporting to be from the Twitch broadcast appear to show a racial epithet scrawled on the rifle used in the attack, as well as the number 14, a likely reference to a white supremacist slogan.
Also killed was Ruth Whitfield, 86, the mother of retired Buffalo Fire Commissioner Garnell Whitfield.
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