announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from buffalo, new york. good evening from buffalo. a still proud but deeply wounded community asking tonight, why us. why a teenager traveled hundreds of miles to this city, to this block, to this grocery store to allegedly seek out black people to kill today we learn the gun attack that killed ten and injured three may not have gone entirely as planned police believe the shooter, pumped up on false and racist conspiracy theories, intended to head down the street and shoot more people. thankfully he was stopped and arrested it came on the same weekend as a mass shooting at a southern california church, an attack on taiwanese church members being investigated tonight as a hate crime that was politically motivated. we ll have more on that in a few moments. let s begin here with the pain, remembrances, and fear in buffalo tonight, buffalo still struggling to come to terms with how someone could turn a s
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
victory for every ukrainian. a ukrainian rap group takes the prize in the song contest. and we begin with a senseless tragedy that s become just all too common in the united states. another mass shooting. mis police say ten people were killed when a 18-year-old white male opened fire in a grocery store in a largely-black neighborhood. they re calling the attack racially motivated, and witnesses are describing a scene that was both horrifying and heartbreaking. i seen a guy in a full army suit, just shooting shots at people. and i seen a security guard run in the store. and then i seen the guy go in, army style, bent over, just shooting at people. and i heard him shooting at people. and i saw three people laying down, and i didn t have a phone on me, so i was just screaming at somebody to call the police and came out. he put the gun to his head, to his chin, then he dropped it, then he took off with a bulletproof vest and got on his hands and knees and put his hands behind
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