Messages appear to show Buffalo supermarket shooting suspect's months-long plan to carry out attack
CBSN
More than 600 pages of messages thought to be written on the social media platform Discord by the man accused of killing 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo appear to show his months-long, unfolding plan to kill as many Black people as he could. The messages, which begin in November, are laced with racist and anti-Semitic tirades.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said this weekend that federal authorities are investigating the shooting as "a hate crime and an act of racially-motivated violent extremism." Of the 13 people killed or wounded, 11 were Black.
The messages appear to have been compiled into a word document by the suspect, 18-year-old Payton Gendron. Authorities tell CBS News they are investigating the messages and believe them to be authentic.
