Mayor calls Buffalo mass shooting 'worst nightmare any community can face'

A gunman wearing military-style clothing and body armor opened fire with a rifle at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, killing at least 10 people before being taken into custody Saturday afternoon, law enforcement officials said. The suspect was identified as Payton Gendron of Conklin, about 200 miles southeast of Buffalo in New York state, two law enforcement officials said. "At approximately 2:30 today, an individual who the mayor stated is not from this area and is from hours away, drove... to the Tops Market. He exited his vehicle. He was very heavily armed. He had tactical gear. He had a tactical helmet on. He had a camera that he was livestreaming what he was doing," Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said. "The individual exited his car and engaged four individuals. He shot four people in the parking lot. Three of those were deceased. One individual at this time is surviving the injury. The individual went inside. As I said, he's an 18 year-old white male, walked into the store and began engaging customers inside the store. Officials said 11 of the victims are Black and two are white. The shooting happened in a predominantly Black neighborhood a few miles north of downtown Buffalo. The FBI is investigating the shooting as both a hate crime and racially motivated violent extremism.