Buffalo suspect's posts on Discord about attack plans were visible to the public 30 minutes before mass shooting
CNN
Before an 18-year-old White man allegedly carried out a racist mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket on Saturday, he revealed his months-long plot to some people on social media about 30 minutes before he opened fire.
Payton S. Gendron -- suspected of killing 10 people and wounding three others -- had created a private chat room on the communications app Discord, and invited people to view his chat logs before his attack at the Tops Friendly Markets store, a Discord spokesperson told CNN.
"What we know at this time is that a private, invite-only server was created by the suspect to serve as a personal diary chat log," a spokesperson for Discord said Tuesday in a statement to CNN. "Approximately 30 minutes prior to the attack, however, a small group of people were invited to and joined the server. Before that, our records indicate no other people saw the diary chat log in this private server."
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