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
our athenna jones track the story. athen aire prosecutors charged the suspect with first degree murder, they say motivated by racism what do we know. we know quite a bit. it s notable that authorities have come out and said what they believed the motivation is. that is very, very rare. usually they want to wait and make sure they can figure out what may have motivated a shooter. clearly they have access to a good deal of evidence we don t know about yet. among that evidence is a purported manifesto that was posted online in connection with this shooting. and other things that may soon come to light. as you mentioned this is an 18-year-old white mail who traveled from several hours away to come specifically to this tops supermarket in a majority black neighborhood and carry out this shooting. this is someone who you heard authorities say he was heavily armed. he had tactical gear, a helmet. he had a camera and was live streaming the shooting as it unfolded on a gaming sort of
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
tonight we are following horrific and tragic breaking news out of buffalo, new york where ten people are dead after a mass shooting at a grocery store. the suspect an 18-year-old white man charged with first degree murder. police say he drove from another part of the state to a majority black neighborhood and opened fire with an assault rifle and livestreamed the violence. earlier i spoke with darius pridgen, the president of the buffalo city council and a pastor at true bethel baptist church, one mile from the shooting. it s unbelievable, you know, for us, because this he didn t come to rob the store. i promise you that. he came to rob people of lives. it s clear. he came to this city to rob people of their lives.
jefferson avenue where the store is located is a historical street for african americans. and so you came on one of the most historic streets in the city of buffalo in an historic area where we have our apollo theater, our library named after a black architect. he went across the street and pulled up and pulled out a weapon and aimed and started shooting. not only did he start shooting but he had the the you a das difficulty and gall to live stream as if it was some type of joke. so this is a community that is really upset. and i m praying right now that justice will be done. but i m also praying for peace in our community. because there were black and white people shot. but mostly african americans. and i don t believe this guy came in this city to shoot white people. i think that they were the casualty who happened to be working in the store. i believe he knew what he was doing and he went for his target.