began another top executive was found dead in his garage there. then there were two murder-suicides in april. both former executives, both said to have killed their wife and daughter and then themselves. one in his home and the other in a spanish villa. finally in july the director of another subsidiary was found dead in his cottage swimming pool, local media reported. a gunshot wound to the head and a pistol nearby. this is not luke oil s first loss this year. a former top manager found dead in a basement from an apparent heart attack. some experts doubt, however, these deaths bear the kremlin s fingerprints. people do commit suicide and particularly for these people they re in industries where they got used to a very elevated quality of life and they know hard times are coming. at the same time, there s been something of a resurgence of a
his untimely death made him at least the sixth high profile businessman to die from apparent suicide since january. four of them from state gas giant currently at the forefront of russia s energy battle with the west. and the first two died in the same village in that country cottages. transport head, four weeks before the war he left a suicide note said russian media. just a day after the war began, another top top executive was found dead in his garage. then, there were two murder suicides in april, both former executives from gas prom or a subsidiary both said to have killed their wife and daughter and then themselves in their moscow homes. finally, in july, the director of another subsidiary was found dead in his cottage s swimming pool local media reported.
reporter: investigators piecing together the sequence of events from what authorities say was a racially motivated attack. the erie county district attorney tells cnn the suspect seemingly planned on killing more black people if he could. it appears that way. again, we need to drill down further. reporter: federal investigators going to the home where the 18-year-old suspect lived with his parents as well as the gun store where the suspect purchased the bushmaster assault rifle. they are also looking into his planning ahead of the attack including illegally modifying his gun to carry 30 round magazines. we ll look into everything that this young man was doing and thinking. reporter: including analyzing the alleged shooter s past, how last year police paid him a visit after he did a high school project on murder-suicides. and analyzing his state of mind just before heading to the market, he is believed to have written and posted a 180 page
attorney tells cnn the suspect seemingly planned on killing more black people if he could. it appears that way. again, we need to drill down further. drilling down further to the home where the 18-year-old suspect lived with his parents. to the gun store where the weapon was purchased before he allegedly drove 3 1/2 hours to get to the supermarket in buffalo because authorities say its community had the highest percentage of black population of any zip code in upstate new york. we re going to look into everything that this young man was doing and thinking. including analyzing the alleged shooter s past. how last year, new york state police paid him a visit after he did a high school project on murder-suicides, according to the erie county sheriff. he stated facility, i m not sure if it was a hospital or mental health facility for a day and a half. his state of mind also being analyzed. just before heading to the market, he s believed to have written and posted a 180-page
half hours from here. we learned just in the last hour from the erie county sheriff, the suspect is in custody at county jail, that that was a high school project on murder suicides and there were deputies that went to his home after that report was submitted to the high school. we also learned from buffalo police commissioner that they have video of the suspect at at least one store, it was a reconnaissance mission in buffalo the day before the shooting. they re looking for other stores, potential video. they re going to look at stores based on license plate tracking system where they re saying they spotted this car through the system throughout buffalo the day before the shooting. also, pouring through the 180 page manifesto in which the commissioner says that the shooter suggested that if he survives this, he would go onto