this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. y i m jake tapper. we start with our national lead. we expect an update from buffalo police after that racist massacre in upstate new york. ten innocent people killed by a racist domestic terrorist who targeted individuals in a predominantly black area of town saturday. officials say it could have been worse. police believe the shooter planned to continue his rampage after leaving the store with his sick goal of killing as many black people as possible. he was wearing tactical gear, armed with a semiautomatic rifle. he had surveilled the area the day before. this shows the moment the suspect was arrested. the erie county sheriff called the attack a straight up racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community. he lived at home with his parents more than three hours away. today, investigators are parsing through a 180-page screed written by the killer. it details how he had been radicalized and was fixate
individual that came here and tried to divide the city of buffalo and erie county did not succeed. people are stronger, we re more united than ever. and kudos to all of our people. again, my condolences and that of the sheriff s office goes out to all the victims and their families. in regards to incarcerated individual 157103, he continues to be in our custody. he continues to be on suicide watch, which means he s in a cloth smock, which is ligature proof, with a blanket which is ligature proof. he s in a segregated unit, aside from the rest of the general population, and that s for his safety.
our state and local law enforcement partners. regarding the threats that have been going around on the internet, we have appointed contact person in my office to deal specifically with those threats. as we have several prosecutors dealing with the investigation of the crime that took place on saturday. so the u.s. attorney s office is actively engaged in this investigation. we will continue to be. and we ll continue to work with our law enforcement partners and district attorney s office, d.a. flynn as necessary. we ll now hear from erie county district attorney john flynn. so i want to touch on a couple topics right here this afternoon. and i ll piggyback on what the mayor said at the end here. first of all, those of you who are local reporters know my m.o. and how i proceed with talking about investigations and matters
waiting to hear from the family to see what is best. jake. jason carroll in new york, thanks so much. officials in buffalo are starting a news conference about the latest information. let s listen in. continue to move forward as a strong city of buffalo, county of erie and new york region. late today, we have been made aware of many social media posts going around with possible threats. i want to be clear, buffalo police and our partnering law enforcement agencies standing here are investigating these social media posts and will prosecute if necessary. i want to emphasize, arrests have already been made, and you ll be hearing more about those. i m now going to turn things over to buffalo police commissioner joseph gramalia. thank you, mayor. so as i said before, this is
new york for collaborating with the erie county department of social services and department of health. there s a food distribution center at the resource council of western new york building at 347 east ferry, which is literally a couple blocks away from the site. there are stores, of course, neighborhood stores that exist, but many don t have fresh food and meats and vegetables. there s a refrigerated vehicle on site provided by tops markets and feed more is doing the same thing so individuals don t have to travel out of their immediate neighborhood to access fresh quality food. the goal is to continue that through may 27th. we understand that there was a significant line of individuals there today, and that will continue. we may open up another site in the immediate area so that there is sufficient locations for the public to get to. if we do open that other site, we will announce it to the general public, but once again, we re all working together to not only help this neighborhood