Buffalo shooting suspect said he committed massacre 'for the future of the White race' in note apologizing to his family, affidavit says
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The 18-year-old accused of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket last month apologized to his family for carrying out the mass shooting, writing in a note he "had to commit this attack" because he cared "for the future of the White race," according to court documents.
Details about the handwritten note, found by the FBI in Payton S. Gendron's bedroom, were revealed in a criminal complaint filed Wednesday by prosecutors in the US Attorney's Office for the Western District of New York, as the US Justice Department announced multiple federal hate crime charges against the suspect. Some of the charges carry the potential for the death penalty.
"Gendron's motive for the mass shooting was to prevent Black people from replacing white people and eliminating the white race, and to inspire others to commit similar attacks," the complaint says.
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