Buffalo white supremacist who shot dead ten threatened to shoot a classmate at graduation | Daily Mail Online
Buffalo white supremacist, 18, threatened a school graduation shooting last year and was given psychiatric treatment - but still legally bought three guns: Classmates reveal he acted strangely, wore hazmat suit to school for a week and scared them with 'Hitler-esque' political views
- Payton Gendron, 18, was investigated by the New York State Police for threating to shoot his classmates during graduation in June 2021
- Police suggested mental health evaluation and counseling
- Classmates recall his 'Hitler-esque' political leanings during a political science exercise
- Gendron wore a hazmat suit to school for the first week of his senior year to protect against Covid
- In his 180-page manifesto refers to the paranoid white supremacist theory of 'white replacement'
- He looks up to other racially-motivated spree killers like Dylan Roof who killed nine people in a black church in South Carolina
- At least 10 people were killed and three were reported injured after a gunman opened fire inside a Buffalo supermarket on Saturday while livestreaming
- Gendron had the n-word scrawled on his rifle, targeted a store in a predominantly black area and shot 11 black people, police said
- Erie County District Attorney John Flynn charged him with one count of first degree murder
- The suspect, filmed wearing a military uniform, has been taken into custody by the Buffalo Police Department and will be charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder as early as Saturday night
- The suspect was reportedly wearing body armor as witnesses said they saw the man wearing a black helmet and carrying a rifle into the store
- Ex-Buffalo cop Aaron Salter Jr, who was working at the market as a security guard, tried to stop the gunman but was fatally shot himself
- 86-year-old Ruth Whitfield, the mother of the former Buffalo fire commissioner, was also gunned down
- New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Buffalo native, said the state is providing assistance to the Buffalo Police Department
- N-word could be seen written on the front sight of gunman's automatic rifle
- President Biden says 'hate must have no safe harbor'