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
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
people. i seen a security guard run in the store then i seen the guy go in, army style, bent over, just shooting at people. i heard him shooting at people and i saw three people laying down. i didn t have a phone on me so i was just screaming for somebody to call the police and he came out. he put the gun to his head. to his chin. then he dropped it and took off his bulletproof vest then got on his hands and knees and put his hands behind his back and they arrested him. that s a shame because there was a lot of people in there. just like seeing all of that, like, what was your mind i still don t even believe it happened, actually. that a person would go into a supermarket full of people. i have an aunt in there. i know some other women in there. one woman just had a baby. so hopefully they re okay. but it s a shame and something has to happen because this is ridiculous. this is just ridiculous. it was a white guy. and he was fully prepared, ready to go. yeah. yeah. yes,
least 20 20 or so shots. i conreally tell because i was yelling and screaming myself for somebody to call the police. he went in there shooting. shooting and ready. i don t know what the problem was. but it was horrible actually. it was really horrible. i m still kind of shooken up. i know, i bet. i heard some screaming. the gunshots was kind of loud. i really didn t hear no screams because the gunshots. i heard he was also shooting from outside. he shot outside first. the security guard ran inside. that s why i m looking like i m going on. i m thinking it s a play actually. because i don t believe that that stuff happens for real. then i seen him go down and seen him do this. that s for real. because he had the glasses on, the brown you saw people coming out. no people were running sitting down at the chair people was running the other way tp i did see that. i seen him go into the store
car. how many shots did you hear? at first, i saw seven or eight gun smoke shots. when he went inside, i heard at least 20 or so shots but i couldn t really tell because i was yelling and screaming myself for somebody to call the police. so he went in there shooting. ready to shoot and ready. i don t know what the problem was, but it was horrible, actually. really horrible. still kind of shooken up. the gun shots was kind of loud. i really didn t hear no screams. the dgun shots was really loud. he shot outside first. the security guard ran inside. that s what i m looking like, what s going on? i m thinking it s a play, actually, because i don t believe that stuff happens for real. then i seen him go down and seen him do this. and i m, that s for real.