his skin. on his son s 3rd birthday. ten people were killed saturday at tops friendly market in a racially motivated attack allegedly by an 18-year-old white man who is now in custody. wasn t even the only mass shooting this weekend. we have learned a lot about the alleged killer already. his background, prior red flags, the racist poison he apparently drew on and how widespread it sadly is, and we ll talk about all of it tonight, but we re not going to use his name or show his photo. he livestreamed the killings. he wants fame. we don t want to be part of giving him that. instead, we begin tonight by telling you what we know about those whose lives were stolen on saturday, like andre mackneil. by the way, he went everywhere, we re told, with his son. his fiancee said his little boy would follow his dad like a shadow. saturday she said today my baby was born, but today my soul mate was taken. how do i tell my son his daddy s not coming home? how do i as a mother make it okay?
authorities believe carrying out reconnaisance just one day before the massacre. the suspect taken into custody on saturday. police say he was heavily armed wearing tactical gear with a camera, livestreaming his rampage. authorities say they have uncovered efvidence that this supermarket was not his only target, and if he had not been stopped, the death toll would have been much higher. he got out of here to continue his rampage and continue shooting people. he had even spoken about possibly going to another store. the scene of this massacre has the highest black populated zip code in new york. police say he posted a manifesto online, describing himself as a white supremacist. we have omar jimenez. reporter: details show the suspect planned the attack months in advance. investigators say he is believed to have scoured the store in early march to prepare for his gunfire. because of the body armor he had on, he could have easily retreated back into that store where ther
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
this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. y i m jake tapper. we start with our national lead. we expect an update from buffalo police after that racist massacre in upstate new york. ten innocent people killed by a racist domestic terrorist who targeted individuals in a predominantly black area of town saturday. officials say it could have been worse. police believe the shooter planned to continue his rampage after leaving the store with his sick goal of killing as many black people as possible. he was wearing tactical gear, armed with a semiautomatic rifle. he had surveilled the area the day before. this shows the moment the suspect was arrested. the erie county sheriff called the attack a straight up racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community. he lived at home with his parents more than three hours away. today, investigators are parsing through a 180-page screed written by the killer. it details how he had been radicalized and was fixate