Messages appear to show Buffalo supermarket shooting suspect's months-long plan to carry out attack
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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.
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