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
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
buffalo super market in predominantly black area travelled 200 miles to the same area two months earlier. we have confirmed now it appears that individual was here back a couple of months ago in early march. that raises so many questions, what he was doing there at that time, obviously, first and foremost and this chilling detail as we re getting new video of the suspect taken into custody tonight. police commissioner revealing he had heavy plated armor on and was wearing a tactical helmet at the time of his arrest. cnn obtaining this image of two of the rifles found inside the alleged gunman s car and one of the guns, see what appears to be the phrase, white lives matter. we have much more on the investigation from the police commissioner but we want you to know who the victims are. roberta had just gone to the super market to buy groceries for dinner, family says she moved to buffalo eight years ago to help her brother under going treatment for leukemia, was 32 years ol
more about those lives that were taken so callously, solely out of hate. we re also learning more about the suspect. authorities identifying him as this 18-year-old white man who apparently traveled more than three hours from his home to target that community. a 180-page manifesto attributed to the suspect was posted online just before the attack. it shows the meticulous planning that apparently went into a racist attack in just chilling detail. we also learned the suspect was already on law enforcement s radar. he had made a generalized threat as a high school student last year. tomorrow president biden will travel to buffalo to meet with families of the victims. the terror in new york, sadly, just one of several mass shootings in recent days. let s begin with cnn s victor blackwell on the scene in buffalo. the suspect currently faces one count of first-degree murder. that really a starting point here. do we expect that federal hate crime charges will be added? reporter: y
joined me just moments ago. who taught him to hate like that. people that were killed were decent, law abiding people just doing what normal people do on a saturday. this is already being investigated as a hate crime. of the 13 people shot in the attack, 11 of the victims were black, and we re learning more about them, including the security guard that gave his life, there he is, trying to save others. had he not been there, more lives would have been lost and the community knows mr. salter. i had several times shopping, he was beloved by the community. he was a great person, a wonderful personality. anyone that knows him will tell you nothing different. that security guard one of the victims. the suspect is an 18-year-old white man. he allegedly chose and targeted this supermarket because it was in a majority black zip code and within driving distance where he lived. cnn learned a 180 page manifesto posted online before the attack reveals a meticulous, chilling level