Kill as many blacks as possible: US supermarket shooter's goal in chilling 180-page manifesto
India Today
The 18-year-old suspect Payton Gendron took explicit inspiration from the white supremacist gunman who murdered 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2019.
Payton Gendron, the teenager charged with shooting dead 10 African Americans at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York followed an insidious racist creed gaining ground among white Americans that minorities are taking over society. He was highly motivated by the white supremacist gunman who murdered 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2019.
The Christchurch killer had warned in a manifesto of a "Great Replacement" of white Christians of European descent by Blacks, Jews, Muslims, Latinos and others, a theory that has found an increasing echo in American right-wing politics and on cable news.
Lifting often word-for-word from the rambling text, Gendron produced a chilling 180-page manifesto of his own -- in which he stated his goal: to "kill as many Blacks as possible."
Gendron himself came from a rural town in New York state that had a very small number of non-white residents.
He learned his hate almost exclusively online, a pattern of "radicalisation" that law enforcement authorities say has only increased in recent years to become a major threat to the United States.
Gendron drove 200 miles (320 kilometres) to the Tops market in Buffalo to carry out his attack in a neighbourhood he knew had a large African American population, during the busiest shopping period of the week.
They live in a modest two-story home, with a large, well-manicured lawn, down a quiet rural lane in Conklin, New York.
