Buffalo residents gather to mourn as authorities uncover more about the racially motivated attack in a predominantly Black area that left 10 dead
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Just outside a supermarket in Buffalo, residents have been gathering since Saturday to mourn and honor those lost after a mass shooting left 10 people killed and three others wounded.
The shock and pain felt by those in the community and around the nation has only been intensified by what authorities believe to be the motive of the shooting, with more details emerging of a racist manifesto allegedly written by the 18-year-old White man suspected of traveling nearly 200 miles from his home to attack a predominantly Black neighborhood.
Saturday's shooting was a "straight up racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community," Erie County Sheriff John C. Garcia said. "This was pure evil."
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