place hours ago in buffalo, new york. at least ten people were killed, three were injured, when a man opened fire in a supermarket. the suspect is an 18 year old white man who is now in custody. there s evidence that the shooting was racially motivated. 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, coming into our community and trying to inflict that evil upon us. 11 of the people shot were black, two were whites. for the latest on the shooting i want to bring msnbc law enforcement analyst jamie kavanaugh. james, i want you to take a listen to some sound of the press conference as sheriff garcia said this was not a member of the community. here 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 crime on the people of buffalo. there you have the mayor saying that the mayor
that is a large city near him and that is buffalo. he goes to buffalo, where the people worry you go somewhere, people congregate, a mall, sports event, parade or whatever. he goes to the supermarket and then he starts shooting people. for the retired buffalo officer who engage him in a gunfight, shot him, shot him in the vest and was shot and killed by him, and buffalo police patrol division officers who got in and gauged him in a gun battle, but for those two incidents, we could ve had 30 dead here. i mean, these rifles will carry a magazine of 30, he could carry two or three or four of these magazines, kill ten, wounded three others. if it weren t for those officers engaging in him, so aggressively, really, we could ve had a lot more deaths here. the supermarket had a lot of people in it, no doubt. that allowed everybody to escape, once the officers were