incident as both hate crime and case of racially motivated violent extremism. pure evil, straight up racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside our community. it was just like something out of a war movie, non-stop shooting. people running screaming. he was very heavily armed. he had tactical gear. he had a taqle helmet on. he had a camera live streaming what he was doing. a military style execution targeting people who simply want to buy groceries. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. i m pam will brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom. our coverage of the breaking news out of western new york continues this hour. authorities in buffalo have arraigned an 18-year-old man they say opened fire on a neighborhood grocery store, killing ten people and wouning three others. police say most of the victims were african american and the gunman is white. our athenna jones track the story. athen aire prosecutors charged the suspect with first degree murde
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
yeah, it could be very well awful. you know, listen, right now, they have a suspect in custody. that s a good news, but right now it s important they reach out to family, individuals that may have been injured during the course of that incident unfolding. that s what they re doing now. of course you have a crime scene they have to protect. they ve got to try to find out as much information from this individual as possible. probably trying to secure search wa warrants. so there are a lot of things going on right now, but one of the main things is actually notifying family members. and here s an eyewitness who just spoke to hour affiliate there, wkbw. from what i saw, just left the store and i stopped here and i started to drink my juice and i heard a gun shot that i knew was a gun shot and not a fire cracker. i looked up and i seen smoke. i seen a guy in a full army shoot just shooting shots at people. i seen a security guard run in the store and then i seen the guy go i
people. i seen a security guard run in the store then i seen the guy go in, army style, bent over, just shooting at people. i heard him shooting at people and i saw three people laying down. i didn t have a phone on me so i was just screaming for somebody to call the police and he came out. he put the gun to his head. to his chin. then he dropped it and took off his bulletproof vest then got on his hands and knees and put his hands behind his back and they arrested him. that s a shame because there was a lot of people in there. just like seeing all of that, like, what was your mind i still don t even believe it happened, actually. that a person would go into a supermarket full of people. i have an aunt in there. i know some other women in there. one woman just had a baby. so hopefully they re okay. but it s a shame and something has to happen because this is ridiculous. this is just ridiculous. it was a white guy. and he was fully prepared, ready to go. yeah. yeah. yes,
this is just ridiculous. it was a white guy and he was fully prepared ready to go, yeah. e dom ite, the devil. white guy, full army suit prepared and ready. and what else did you see? how long did it take for it took the police about two minutes, a minute 30 seconds actually. that was pretty much it, yeah took them about two minutes. they got here and any stood and watched him. i thought they was going to shoot him but they didn t shoot him. yeah, like i said, he he got on the ground and surrendered himself. i heard some people over there that he had other rivals in his car. i don t really know. how many shots did you here. i heard and saw at first seven or eight gun smoke shots. when he went inside i heard at