neighborhood in buffalo, new york. according to officials. the government has been arraigned on first degree murder and is being held without bail. his next court appearance is scheduled for thursday. a senior law enforcement official told reporters that the parents of the suspect are distraught and are cooperating, and they say the suspect recently purchased weapons used. which included a semiautomatic rifle, a hunting rifle and a shotgun. 11 of the victims are black, into our white, according to officials. investigators say the gunman livestreamed the massacre on social media service twitch and that he was motivated by racial hate. this was pure evil. straight-up racially motivated hate crime, from somebody outside of our community, outside of the city of good neighbors, as the mayor said, coming into our community and trying to inflict that evil upon us. a racist alleged manifesto was posted a line under the suspect s name on thursday night. sources tell nbc news that
racially motivated mass shooting in buffalo, new york. another hour of velshi starts right now. velshi start right now. good morning, it s sunday may 15th, i am maria teresa kumar in four ali velshi. we begin with the latest on the deadly mass shooting in upstate new york. at least ten people are dead three more wounded after a white 18 year old gunman, dressed in military style tactical gear, opened fire at a supermarket in a predominantly black neighborhood in buffalo new york, according to officials. the gunman has been arraigned on one count of first degree murder and is being held without bail. his next court appearance is scheduled for thursday. a senior law enforcement official told reporters that the parents of the suspect are distraught and are cooperating. and they say the suspect recently legally purchased the weapons used, which included a semiautomatic rifle, a hunting rifle and a shotgun. 11 of the victims are black and to our white, according to the officials
pipe. we re going to hear from him in just a few minutes. and we are headed into the culture corner, y all. our culture critics weighing in on the rico charges for atlanta rappers. i m simone sanders and i have something to say. at least ten people are dead, according to authorities after a shooter opened fire at tops course around buffalo new york on saturday. the shooter did so in a zip code or nearly 80% of the residents are black. the shooter is now in custody and an apparent manifesto treated to him appeared online in the days before the attack. now this manifesto, it is races racist diatribes and antisemitic memes and frequently invokes the white supremacists great replacement theory. which has motivated other shootings in the past. now the great replacement theory falsely claims that jews are working to replace white people with people of color. with me now, i want to bring our first guest as former u.s. attorney general eric holder. he is the author of the new book,
what more do we know? it s truly chilling and more detail will be coming in but those ten people shot and killed at this top supermarket in buffalo, new york. this is a majority black neighborhood. authority say he drove from hours away. we re not sure how far. he kaz not from buffalo. came to this supermarket and fired these shots killing people. we heard this suspect was live streaming the shooting while it was going on. he was heavily armed. here is more from area county sheriff. this was pure evil. it was straight up racially motivated hate crime from somebody oud of our community as the mayor said coming into our community and trying to inflict that evil upon us. i urge every one to stay calm and we are there to protect the citizens of erie county an buffalo. we ll be out there patrolling. a remarkable statement from the area county sheriff saying they already know, they already have a sense of what the motivation was for this shooting. that means they have evidenc
this hour the latest on a mile shooting which just took place hours ago before new york. at least ten people were killed, three were injured, when a man wearing military style gear opened fire and no market. the suspect is an 18 year old white male who is now in custody. there s evidence of the shooting was racially motivated s. this was pure evil. it was straight-up, racially motivated, hate crime. from somebody outside of our community, outside of the city of good neighbors, as an asset, combatants of our community, and trying to put evil upon us. 11 of the people shot were black, two or white. for the late night shooting, honoring an msnbc law enforcement analyst jim kavanaugh. jim, i want you to take a listen to some sound from that press conference, a sheriff aggressive said. this is not a member of the community. he s a little bit more. the shooter was not from this community. in fact, the shooter traveled hours from outside this community. to perpetrate this cri