lashing out over sweden joining finland in seeking nato membership. the kremlin is now threatening to retaliate. and there s a significant new development impacting the nationwide shortage of infant formula. a deal has just been reached to reopen a plant that was shut down because of a recall. how soon will desperately needed nourishment for america s babies are back on store shelves? we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room . we begin with new evidence that the buffalo shooting suspect was plotting a racially motivated slaughter for months. visiting the city back in march, and potentially looking to attack a second store. cnn s brian todd is on the scene for us, following all the new developments tonight. this was a straight-up hate crime, pure evil. reporter: tonight, police revealing details about the meticulous planning that went into the massacre of ten people in a buffalo store
had he not been stopped. tell us what we know so far about his motivation? well, obviously from what all of the evidence that we ve gathered so far, the motivation at this stage appears to be pure hatred. pure racial hatred. now there happens to be a penal law in the state of new york that is entitled a domestic act of terrorism motivated by hate. that particular crime right now is a crime that i m focusing on. i ve already got him charged mika with the highest murder charge in the state. murder if the first-degree. so we got that charged. we got him hold on that. so now, the next legal step is we have a felony hearing scheduled for thursday. it is a probable cause hearing to determine whether or not a felony has been committed. i m confident that the murder in the first-degree meets the probable cause standard. so he s going to be either held for the grand jury on thursday, or he s going to waive to the grand jury. so i m already in grand jury mode right now. so what that
states tomorrow, we ll have a preview of the races to watch. we begin with the aftermath of what was a violent weekend in a number of places. we start with buffalo, new york that is still realing after a white teenager carried out what they re calling a racist attack in a super market in a predominantly black neighborhood. nearly all of the victims were black. the gunman is in custody and being held on a first degree murder charge. he intended to take as many black lives as possible. president biden and first lady jill biden will visit the community to grieve with them. we are learning more about the victims, aaron salter a police officer turned security guard that tried to stop the gunman. katherine massey who tried to make her community a better place to live. pearl young who ran a food pantry for a quarter century. heyward patterson who was loading bags into a car. celestine chaney and roberto roberto drury who was just buying groceries. jesse, what have we learned about t
with an ar-15 tactical gear, body armor, opening live streaming the massacre for two minutes straight. the suspect allegedly posting a 180-page manifesto online just days before the shooting. that included white supremacist ideology. right now, president biden is speaking at a medal of valor ceremony. the president traveling with the first lady tomorrow to pay their respects. after these comments over the weekend. a long gun man, armed with weapons of war and hate-filled soul shot and killed ten innocent people in cold blood. we must all work together to address the hate that remains a stain on the soul of america. hearts are heavy once again, but a resolve must never waiver. reporter: and we have a lot more going on across the country, following the latest developments in orange county, california, where one person is dead. and five more people are injured after another mass shooting. this one at a meeting of asian churchgoers. a 68-year-old male, las vegas resident, has
senseless act of racist terrorism committed here in the united states. this white gunman walking into the grocery store in buffalo, new york, this weekend. this was a majority neighborhood, and the evidence shows the shooter knew that, going on to kill ten peerj injuring three more. the city s worst mass shooting ever. authorities say this alleged shooter planned to continue an attack beyond the supermarket and the plan was specifically to target more black people like those targeted inside the store, had he not been stopped by police. they arrive on the scene within minutes and we have more on the response program later. but the suspect has been identified as 18-year-old payton gendron. authorities say he was armed with an ar-15 rifle, body armor. he has been charged with first-degree murder. the fbi also investigating this as a federal hate crime. civil rights attorney ben crump also discussing it, as i just mentioned, as domestic terror. this was an act of domestic terro