karine: good afternoon, everybody. hello. i apologize. ok. let s get started. so before we start the briefing, i want to take a moment to recognize the lives lost and forever changed in buffalo. former buffalo police lieutenant aaron salter, 55, is a hero. a security guard who engaged the suspect to save lives and was killed in the process. ruth whitfield, 86, was a mother of a retired firefighter. ruth was the rock of the family, devoted to taking care of her four children and husband. ruth was visiting the former commissioner s father in a nursing home as she did each day and she stopped at the supermarket to buy some groceries. katherine massey, 72, was a well-known community figure who wrote for her local newspapers, assisted in elections, and dressed up in costume as mr. broccoli. to teach local schoolchildren to eat right. pearl young, 77, was a substitute teacher and a true pillar in the community who volunteered at a church, food pantry every saturday. heyward patters
here the day before the attack, saying he spoke with the suspect. the allege d gunman asking, ar you going to be hear tomorrow? stephanie ramos here at the scene tonight. we are also learning more about the victims here. and we will honor them. the youngest, 32, the oldest, 86. tonight here, their stories. and the hero security guard killed child confronting the shooter. our interview tonight with a mother and daughter working inside the store. what they saw that guard do. tonight, how they describe his heroism, his bravery. the investigation tonight and major questions now about the warning signs. the suspect interacting with law enforcement around the time of his high school graduation last june. his alleged threats one year ago. and what s now been found tonight. what he posted just two weeks ago on the internet. what was posted just two weeks ago on the internet? was his plan out there weeks before this horrific attack? he learned tonight. the other mass shooting in
states tomorrow, we ll have a preview of the races to watch. we begin with the aftermath of what was a violent weekend in a number of places. we start with buffalo, new york that is still realing after a white teenager carried out what they re calling a racist attack in a super market in a predominantly black neighborhood. nearly all of the victims were black. the gunman is in custody and being held on a first degree murder charge. he intended to take as many black lives as possible. president biden and first lady jill biden will visit the community to grieve with them. we are learning more about the victims, aaron salter a police officer turned security guard that tried to stop the gunman. katherine massey who tried to make her community a better place to live. pearl young who ran a food pantry for a quarter century. heyward patterson who was loading bags into a car. celestine chaney and roberto roberto drury who was just buying groceries. jesse, what have we learned about t
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