his skin. on his son s 3rd birthday. ten people were killed saturday at tops friendly market in a racially motivated attack allegedly by an 18-year-old white man who is now in custody. wasn t even the only mass shooting this weekend. we have learned a lot about the alleged killer already. his background, prior red flags, the racist poison he apparently drew on and how widespread it sadly is, and we ll talk about all of it tonight, but we re not going to use his name or show his photo. he livestreamed the killings. he wants fame. we don t want to be part of giving him that. instead, we begin tonight by telling you what we know about those whose lives were stolen on saturday, like andre mackneil. by the way, he went everywhere, we re told, with his son. his fiancee said his little boy would follow his dad like a shadow. saturday she said today my baby was born, but today my soul mate was taken. how do i tell my son his daddy s not coming home? how do i as a mother make it okay?
it s important for history to talk about who he is, but i commend you for doing that. my heart is hurting. everyone i spoke to today, their heart is hurting, and they feel helpless. i m going to talk to the audience about that in just a little bit. but we ve seen this all too often. yeah. you know, anybody at home can probably remember the names of the killers in columbine but not necessarily the people the names of people who lost their lives. i feel like that s the case for a lot of mass killings in this country. we all focus on the shooter, and people learn that person s name, and they want that. they want that kind of attention. i think it s important to report on them and their motivation and everything about them. but i just don t think we should give them that kind of extended coverage. and to call listen, we have to call it what it is. that s our job without fear or favor. but also i was sitting writing the opening to my show tonight, and you again inspired me
this is don lemon tonight. america is mourning after multiple mass shootings across the weekend at a grocery store, a church a, a few blocks from a nba game, and new york. this is a straight up hate crime. pure evil. the n word was unfortunately carved into one of his weapons. clearly he was bent on hate. plus major twists in key primary races with just hours to go until the polls open. in pennsylvania, a democratic frontrunner suffering a stroke and a republican candidate who marched the capitol on january 6 rising to the top of the field. and combat mission over. that is a message from ukranian forces after months of nonstop shelling at the steel plant in mariupol. we re going to have the latest on the agreement with russia that led to hundreds of evacuations. for more on these horrific shootings, though, and the motivations behind them, i want to turn to cnn s omar jimenez in buffalo, new york. good evening to both of you. omar, let s start with you. we are lea
coming to an end and it s a high stakes election day in five u.s. states with donald trump s influence looming large over key primary races. we will take a look. this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks for joining us. u.s. president joe biden will travel to buffalo new york in the coming hours, where he will meet with families of the victims of saturday s racially motivated shooting. a white house official tells cnn, the president will make remarks in buffalo and condemn the shooting as terrorism motivated by a hateful and perverse ideology. and he is expected to call on americans to quote, give hate no safe harbor. this comes as we learn new details about the 18-year-old accused in the attack that killed ten people. brian todd has the latest. reporter: this was a straight up hate crime. pure evil. police revealing details about the planning that went in to the massacre of ten people in the buffalo store and how it could have been worse. he had plans had he go
this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. y i m jake tapper. we start with our national lead. we expect an update from buffalo police after that racist massacre in upstate new york. ten innocent people killed by a racist domestic terrorist who targeted individuals in a predominantly black area of town saturday. officials say it could have been worse. police believe the shooter planned to continue his rampage after leaving the store with his sick goal of killing as many black people as possible. he was wearing tactical gear, armed with a semiautomatic rifle. he had surveilled the area the day before. this shows the moment the suspect was arrested. the erie county sheriff called the attack a straight up racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community. he lived at home with his parents more than three hours away. today, investigators are parsing through a 180-page screed written by the killer. it details how he had been radicalized and was fixate