who died today. i m the united states attorney for western district of new york. i want to start by saying my thoughts and heartfelt prayers going to the family, the victims and the community that had to suffer this great and unnecessary tragedy today. we re wrorking with our state, federal and local law enforcement partners as you already heard from to ensure that justice is brought to this community, to those victims, to their family. the united states attorneys office will be investigating this case along with our law enforcement partners as a hate crime and domestic violence extremist. i m in touch with highest levels of the department of justice, resources will be put behind this investigation. whatever we need, we will not stop until justice is brought to this community, those families and the victims of this horrific crime. i can assure you as the united states attorney i will bring whatever resources we need to this community to make sure that justice is done. this
going to do for our community and other communities to make sure this type of crime is stopped. one more. is this schedule the event in buffalo. as long as i can remember. what are the age ranges of the people that have passed? not going to get into that now. can you tell us a bit more about the timeline of how he was taken into custody? how long between the time this attack started and time it ended was he taken into custody and did it take police to get there? i don t have the exact answer on time. it was a very fast response by our prinatrol officers who immediately went inside the super market. was the shooter speaking when he was live streaming? we can t comment on that. all right. we will conclude with prayer.
community. in fact, the shooter traveled hours from outside this community to perpetrate this crime on the people of buffalo. a day when people were enjoying the sunshine, enjoying family, enjoying friends, all manner of happy activities. people in a supermarket shopping and bullets raining down on them. people s lives being snuffed out in an instant for no reason. as we learned in the press conference, this shooter is in k k custody. he s an 18-year-old white male who drove in from outside the community. drove in several hours. not from the city of buffalo. they believe this is a racially
unfortunately lost their life. three that have been shot. there s also a second subsection of the nmurder in the first-degree that has a racial component to it. obviously, we will investigate that further. i want to make sure right now when i arraign him tonight my clock is ticking as far as my felony hearing date which will be five days from now. i want to make sure i have the best charge right now to hold him in custody and get this matter moving forward before i add any other charges on. i can and in those charges are applicable, which i think they may be, they will be added on. they re not going to increase the punishment at all from a
we see the shootings where it s clear cut. what was the motivation. here that seems to be the case. it s very clear cut to officials with what they are dealing with. i think also significantly the authorities talking about how the alleged shooter turned the gun on lims and seseemingly indicate he was going to take his own life but police were able to stop that. they now have this person in custody. that s going froto provide them lot of information. i think with the da they are saying they are ready to arraign him. they are charging this individual. they have overwhelming evidence that is allowing them to do so with this video of this shooting. was he targets this community specifically.