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
wounding three others. bill: the suspect faced a judge saturday night. the new york post cover. eyes of a killer. dana: 10 families left to wonder how a teenager could be capable of such evil. he shot a woman, a deacon and then he went in the store and started shooting again. i think for somebody to do something like that, it s sick. there is no excuse for nothing like that. all of them were innocent and did not deserve to die this way. i usually come back. thank god i didn t come back. dana: we re live in buffalo with the latest this morning. good morning, alexis. good morning. horrific day here in buffalo, new york and what a tragic weekend it was. a beautiful saturday afternoon. people in the grocery store in the east area of the city just doing some shopping on the weekend when this massacre happened. this morning the tops grocery store is still covered in crime scene tape, active and ongoing investigation by federal, local and state authorities still on
tight united states senate. so in trump s corner, you have tv show dr. oz neck and neck with former bush official dave mccormick and commentator kim barnett who has been coming up the side on the rails there. really squarely in contention. they have three gop candidates, right? you would have those this would have whittled down. they re all around 20%. then you have about 20% that haven t decided yet. so this is fascinaing to watch. president trump asking voters in north carolina to get behind this the re-election for a controversial young member of congress, madison kawthorn. he said give him a second chance. he s made foolish mistakes. you can check out what s going on there. kind of interesting in that story. so charles watson is live in charlotte, north carolina where action will be going on tomorrow with more on that. first we go to rich edson. he s in the keystone state. he s in pittsburgh. hi, rich. good afternoon, martha. you know, you only get one endorsement in
that horrific shooting in buffalo, new york, and now we have church shooting here in california. it s unclear exactly how many victims there are. we re waiting for official numbers or the extent of the injuries of these victims. we re told one person has been detained, one suspect is in custody and that a weapon that may have been involved has been recovered. there is a heavy law enforcement presence at the scene. a source out of orange county tells me that this happened at the geneva presbyterian church in laguna woods. you can see the picture of that church of there. my colleague, bill melugin, you know, sent a relative out there to help get this video. you can see that picture there, you have the fire trucks, the officers. obviously, this is going to be an extensive investigation. now again, this happened in laguna woods. that that city is home to a large retirement community. you have a lot of older people who live in this area. the orange county very s office sheriff s
the shooting, coming just hours after the deadly shooting in popular new york. 18 year old motivated by hate walked into a supermarket, in a predominantly black community, and started shooting, leaving ten dead. today, and a large crowd gathered outside the grocery store for a prayer vigil. ministers called for peace and healing, and denounced this act of hate. this is not open season! this is not open season on african americans! this is not, shoot if you want! no, that s not with this is. this was an act of evil. amen! evil! well, the community grieves we are learning more about the suspect and the warning signs. authorities said new york state police investigated the 18 year old for threatening a high school. during that in four castigation they won for once a invest mental health the authenticity of a racist manifesto the detailed the gunman s plot. the manifesto repeatedly cited the great replacement theory, that is the false conspiracy that white americans a